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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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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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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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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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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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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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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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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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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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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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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