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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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I did not know at first that it would be a series I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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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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She looked around. Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You! And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. And you. She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. But not you, she decided, encountering the zombie.
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Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
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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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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens I am far more disciplined than that.
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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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Information is power. --Humfrey
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