Piers Anthony Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.”

“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.”

“It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.”

“But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.”

“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.”

“I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”