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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. "
Piers Anthony
Though
Many
Background
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" But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do. "
Piers Anthony
Pleasure
Listen
Too Much
" What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit. "
Piers Anthony
Want
Who
Simply
" 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. "
Piers Anthony
Writing
Living
Support
" All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense. "
Piers Anthony
Just
Sense
All Things
" 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. "
Piers Anthony
Need
Love
Working
" 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. "
Piers Anthony
Found
Books
Collaboration
" At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet. "
Piers Anthony
Been
Wrote
Time
" 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. "
Piers Anthony
Practice
Skill
Writing
" If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case. "
Piers Anthony
Look
Down
Your
" That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary. "
Piers Anthony
Position
Adversary
Dangerous
" When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there. "
Piers Anthony
Writing
Started
Seriously
" I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth. "
Piers Anthony
Florida
Turned
State
" 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
Accusation
Guilty
Person
" 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. "
Piers Anthony
Healthy
Good
Rose
" 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. "
Piers Anthony
Be Different
Start
Writing
" At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails. "
Piers Anthony
Emails
Answer
Present
" 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. "
Piers Anthony
Today
Chance
Farmer
" 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. "
Piers Anthony
America
Education
Believe
" I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements. "
Piers Anthony
Original
Want
Without
" It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. "
Piers Anthony
I Feel
Feel
Fiction
" 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. "
Piers Anthony
Start
Work
Writing
" 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. "
Piers Anthony
Say
Know
First
" 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. "
Piers Anthony
Now
Self
Internet
" One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need. "
Piers Anthony
Muse
Suffer
Need
" SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. "
Piers Anthony
Possible
Impossible
SF
" 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. "
Piers Anthony
Hope
See
Trouble
" I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way. "
Piers Anthony
Year
Want
Moment