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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: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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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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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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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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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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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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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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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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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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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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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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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 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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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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