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"What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit."
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"What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit."
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"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."
Books
"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
"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
"When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there."
Humorous
"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."
Writing
"I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth."
Home
"What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit."
Publishers
"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
"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."
Fiction
"It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it."
Fiction
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