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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

Piers Anthony

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Piers Anthony
Age: 91
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
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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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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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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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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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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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Information is power. --Humfrey
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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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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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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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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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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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Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
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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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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 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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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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