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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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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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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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I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
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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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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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Information is power. --Humfrey
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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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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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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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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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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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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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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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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