Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 August 1934
home land florida
I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
fun firsts tape
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.
book editors collaboration
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.
princess thinking rose
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.
humorous writing fantasy
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
editors looks cases
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
writing would-be fiction
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
block waiting suffering
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
taxes certainty denied
Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
air water magic
Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.
writing views different
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.
mind library stones
The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?
writing years wife
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.
warrior common-sense weapons
Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.