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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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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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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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Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
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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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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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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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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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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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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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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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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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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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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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