Piers Anthony Quotes
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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 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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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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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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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.