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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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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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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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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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
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I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out his house and got him to get a new car. He said to me, 'If I give you $10,000, will you find me my wife because I want someone like you?' And within a year, he got married. That was the first match that led to me leaving my corporate job.
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I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.
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I don't think there's any evidence to support that kind of criticism. I think that what we have attempted to do is to say that environmental concerns should certainly be addressed. We're not suggesting that any kind of development trample upon the existing laws that are there to insure that we maintain as high a quality of environment as possible.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.
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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.
