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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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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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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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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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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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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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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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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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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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 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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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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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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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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