Piers Anthony Quotes

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• 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…
• I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
• If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
• It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
• One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
• What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
• When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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;…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy…
• 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…
• People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
• Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years…
• If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
• Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer

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