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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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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
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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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Information is power. --Humfrey
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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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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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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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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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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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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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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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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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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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