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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 Anthony
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Piers Anthony
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
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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.
Piers Anthony
Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
Piers Anthony
If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
Piers Anthony
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.
Piers Anthony
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.
Piers Anthony
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
Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
Piers Anthony
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
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
Piers Anthony
Obviously it could be, because it was.
Piers Anthony
Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
Piers Anthony
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
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
Piers Anthony
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.
Piers Anthony
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
Piers Anthony
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
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
Piers Anthony
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
...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
Piers Anthony
People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
Piers Anthony
