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
horse hug zombie
She looked around. "Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You!" And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. "And you." She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. "But not you," she decided, encountering the zombie.
stories finished
For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.
temptation foolish sweetest
...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
thinking creative stories
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.
Obviously it could be, because it was.
writing cutting rocks
Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.
distressing
But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.
literature impossible
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
couple journey views
At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.
book reading library
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.
hopeful doe lessons
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
children growing-up grows
Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.
glitter sometimes guilty
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.
people one-day opinion
One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.