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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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Piers Anthony
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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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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Information is power. --Humfrey
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