Piers Anthony quotes - page 2

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet. (Piers Anthony)
I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements. View quote
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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. View quote
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I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth. View quote
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I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all. View quote
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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case. View quote
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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. View quote
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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 before making my first sale. View quote
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No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects. View quote
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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 it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia. View quote
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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. (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. View quote
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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish. View quote
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Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us. View quote
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What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit. View quote
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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 writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along. View quote
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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 want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way. View quote
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We are all creatures of our ancestry There is no right and wrong, objectively. View quote
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