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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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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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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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Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.
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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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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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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.
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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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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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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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Information is power. --Humfrey
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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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