Quote

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

Piers Anthony

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Piers Anthony
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Author
Literary Editor
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
Writer
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
Take
Humorous
Writing
Seriously
Fantasy
Became
Couldn
Started
Simply
Found
Continued

More quotes by Piers Anthony

Image
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
Piers Anthony
Image
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
Piers Anthony
Image
Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
Piers Anthony
Image
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.
Piers Anthony
Image
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Piers Anthony
Image
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
Piers Anthony
Image
At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
Piers Anthony
Image
If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
Piers Anthony
Image
We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
Piers Anthony
Image
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.
Piers Anthony
Image
Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
Piers Anthony
Image
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
Piers Anthony
Image
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.
Piers Anthony
Image
People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
Piers Anthony
Image
She looked around. Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You! And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. And you. She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. But not you, she decided, encountering the zombie.
Piers Anthony
Image
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
Piers Anthony
Image
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
Piers Anthony
Image
...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
Piers Anthony
Image
Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.
Piers Anthony
Image
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
Piers Anthony