Top 25 Quotes by Piers Anthony of 60 - Page 3

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

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

Piers Anthony

Collaboration, Want, Merit

Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer

Piers Anthony

Jordan

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

Wish, Needs, Reader

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

Book, Self, Amazon

Interview with Dag Rambraut, www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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.

Piers Anthony

Light, Annoyed, Waiting

A horse is wonderful by definition.

Piers Anthony

Horse, Definitions, Wonderful

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.

Piers Anthony

Years, Fiction, Want

We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.

Piers Anthony

Ancestry, Creatures

Piers Anthony (2014). “Phthor”, p.49, Open Road Media

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, Views, Different