I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
Piers AnthonyAs 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.
Piers AnthonyIt would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
Piers Anthony