"People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there……" — Piers Anthony
"People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it."
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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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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to…
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy,…
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It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but…
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The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
— Thucydides
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Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed…
— Vaclav Klaus
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I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear…
— Michael Jackson
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I’m just a person who wants to be honest and do good, make people happy and give them the greatest…
— Michael Jackson
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think,…
— Sienna Miller
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I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while
— Jeri Ryan
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I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and…
— Edward R. Murrow
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