English - Writer | August 6, 1934 -
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.
Piers Anthony
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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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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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All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
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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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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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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.
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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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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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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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