Piers Anthony Quotes
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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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties.
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It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.
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When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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Working together, we will continue to lay the foundation for a new generation of inclusive economic growth, expand economic opportunity for middle-class families, and ensure that innovative businesses have the support they need to thrive and grow in the years to come.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.
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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
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It's very difficult to make a 100% turnaround. It's tough when you actually do exhibit patterns of bad behavior. You need to have a very strong support system of people who are willing to keep you in your place if you're going to overcome these things.
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I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.
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I always find entertainment in the support band.
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The Secret Service once watched for people who fit the popular profile of dangerousness: the lunatic, the loner, the threatener, the hater.
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Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
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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.
