Piers Anthony

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to…

— Piers Anthony

Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer

— Piers Anthony

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

— Piers Anthony

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

— Piers Anthony

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

— Piers Anthony

Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.

— Piers Anthony

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

— Piers Anthony

“Only in Xanth would parents see a dragon looming over their children and depart with confidence.”

— Piers Anthony

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

— Piers Anthony

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

— Piers Anthony

“Grief is not necessarily any prettier than death, and the grief-stricken do not wander like lambs grateful for the shepherd's guidance. They…

— Piers Anthony

“Enough , you hens!" Niobe exploded. "It's tentative!" Lachesis snorted "As tentative as a pregnancy,girl!”

— Piers Anthony

A horse is wonderful by definition.

— Piers Anthony

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside…

— Piers Anthony

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

— Piers Anthony

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

— Piers Anthony

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.

— Piers Anthony

“She would have to ride the nightmare in her sleep. Only that would keep it material, or enable her to dematerialize with…

— Piers Anthony

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

— Piers Anthony

If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

— 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

“Writers pay a lot of attention to wordage, because some publishers seem to care more about length than about quality and will…

— Piers Anthony

Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!

— Piers Anthony

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely…

— Piers Anthony

“Dor shook his head. Such mysteries were beyond his fathoming. All he could do was...what he could do.”

— Piers Anthony