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No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

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Piers Anthony
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
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Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
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As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad editors won't even read them.
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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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Information is power. --Humfrey
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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
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Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.
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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
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When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
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Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
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Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
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Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.
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