"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."

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"Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia."

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

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

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

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"When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there."

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"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."

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"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

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

Pleasure

"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."

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

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