Obviously it could be, because it was.

Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.

...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

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

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.

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.

Obviously it could be, because it was.