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English - Writer Born: 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.

Sometimes Person Guilty Accusation

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Impossible Literature Possible SF

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

You Things How Sense

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.

Fun Potential First Lighter

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.

Hope Good Light Waiting

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

Dangerous Position Who Most

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.

Bad Collaboration Done Books

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

Month Present Answer Letters

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.

Time Internet Never Been

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

Too Much Pleasure Listen Read

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.

You Wife Support 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.

Know Say More First

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.

Me Moment Way Will

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Doing Want Guilty Without

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.

Work Today Farmer Remember

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.

Self Internet Book Free

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.

I Am Feel View Be Different

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

Home Land Florida State

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.

Love Time Wish I Wish

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

You Look Down Your

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.

Education Culture Believe Sex

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Feel Without Write I Feel

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.

You Writing Practice Skill

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.

Things Background Though Many

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.

Work Writing Be Different Start

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

Wait Need Reason Suffer

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