Words matter. These are the best Piers Anthony Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
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.
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.
All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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.
I don’t want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
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.
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.
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.
But I don’t read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.
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.
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.
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
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.
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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.
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.
