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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
Piers Anthony
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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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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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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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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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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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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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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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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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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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
Piers Anthony
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 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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