"I think it's a shame that something as……" — 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 controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers."
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54 Quotes by Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony has 54 quotes on this site.
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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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I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view…
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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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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national…
— Wendell Berry
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You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and…
— Jello Biafra
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Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
— Conrad Black
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders…
— Conrad Black
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
— Manolo Blahnik
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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all…
— Alvin Ailey
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision…
— Dan Brown
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun!…
— Carol Burnett
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than…
— Margaret Cho
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
— Jackie Chan
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