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
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.
distressing
But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.
taxes certainty denied
Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
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.
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.
internet
At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
information-is-power information
Information is power. --Humfrey
jordan
Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
letters months email
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.