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
english-writer faster light possible published science space
Much of what is published is actually science fantasy, seeming possible but actually impossible, such as faster than light space travel.
self childhood feelings
One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.
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!
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.
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.
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.
temptation foolish sweetest
...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
taxes certainty denied
Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
editors looks cases
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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.
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.
writing would-be fiction
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.