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Piers Anthony

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

— Piers Anthony time

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.

— Piers Anthony education

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

— Piers Anthony you

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

— Piers Anthony reason

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

— Piers Anthony humor

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

— Piers Anthony literature

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

— Piers Anthony pain

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

— Piers Anthony work

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

— Piers Anthony writing

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.

— Piers Anthony trust

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.

— Piers Anthony writing

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.

— Piers Anthony time

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

— Piers Anthony you

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

— Piers Anthony wit

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

— Piers Anthony present

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

— Piers Anthony books

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.

— Piers Anthony writing

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.

— Piers Anthony books

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

— Piers Anthony fiction

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.

— Piers Anthony man

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

— Piers Anthony home

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.

— Piers Anthony love

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

— Piers Anthony fiction

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

— Piers Anthony pleasure

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.

— Piers Anthony writing

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