Piers Anthony Quotes

United States, Writer
August 6, 1934

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934 in Oxford, England) is an English American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.

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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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I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

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- Home

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

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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.

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

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- Literature
I retaliated by visiting on them all manner of mischief, but I concluded, after some centuries of chronic relapsing on their part, that rage and punishment was not the best way to hold a clientele. It is only the most primitive of mortals who is swayed by that sort of thing.

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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.

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