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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

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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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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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Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
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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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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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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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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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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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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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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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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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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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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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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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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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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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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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Information is power. --Humfrey
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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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