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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

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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 have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
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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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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
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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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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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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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Information is power. --Humfrey
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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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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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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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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
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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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