All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
From Piers Anthony
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.
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.
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
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.
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.
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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