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
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.
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.
writing would-be firsts
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.
elements want guilty
I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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.
ancestry creatures
We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
internet
At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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.
way
Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph
information-is-power information
Information is power. --Humfrey
writing eight years
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.
jordan
Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
letters months email
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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.