"I never do a full outline, and if……" — Piers Anthony
"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."
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Piers Anthony
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54 Quotes by Piers Anthony
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is…
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I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
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What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
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When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued…
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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…
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As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not…
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Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a…
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I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I…
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I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't…
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