Piers Anthony Quotes
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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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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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A horse is wonderful by definition.
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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.
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Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.
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Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.
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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.
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What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
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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 hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
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Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
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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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One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.
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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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Information is power. --Humfrey
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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.
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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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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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One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.
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I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
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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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Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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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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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 this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.
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