Piers Anthony Quotes

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• Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

  Piers Anthony

  Courage, Fear, Coward

  Piers Anthony (2002). “Castle Roogna”, p.46, Del Rey

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• 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.

  Piers Anthony

  Inspirational, Happy, Letting Go

  "Fractal Mode". Book by Piers Anthony, January, 1992.

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• 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.

  Piers Anthony

  Glitter, Sometimes, Guilty

  Piers Anthony (1989). “Bio of an Ogre: The Autobiography of Piers Anthony to Age 50”, Ace Books

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• All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

  Piers Anthony

  Fathom, Make Sense, All Things

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• One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

  Piers Anthony

  People, One Day, Opinion

  Piers Anthony (2002). “A Spell for Chameleon (Original Edition)”, p.20, Del Rey

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• But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

  Piers Anthony

  Distressing

  Piers Anthony (2002). “Crewel Lye”, p.34, Del Rey

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• When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

  Piers Anthony

  Book, Reading, Library

  Piers Anthony (1986). “Golem in the Gears”, Random House LLC

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• For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

  Piers Anthony

  Stories, Finished

  Piers Anthony (1985). “Crewel lye: a caustic yarn”, Del Rey

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• Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

  Piers Anthony

  Children, Growing Up, Grows

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• Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.

  Piers Anthony

  Real, Hate, Evil

  Piers Anthony (2012). “Bearing an Hourglass”, p.108, Del Rey

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• The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

  Piers Anthony

  Thinking, Fool, Know It All

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• That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

  Piers Anthony

  Pain, Opponents, Dangerous

  Piers Anthony (1971). “Orn”, Avon Books

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• Obviously it could be, because it was.

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  Piers Anthony (2008). “With a Tangled Skein”, p.99, Del Rey

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• Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

  Piers Anthony

  Taxes, Certainty, Denied

  Piers Anthony (2012). “On a Pale Horse”, p.150, Del Rey

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• Information is power. --Humfrey

  Piers Anthony

  Information Is Power, Information

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• The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

  Piers Anthony

  Mind, Library, Comfort

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• 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.

  Piers Anthony

  Writing, Cutting, Rocks

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• I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

  Piers Anthony

  Thinking, Creative, Stories

  Piers Anthony (2001). “How Precious Was That While”, p.87, Macmillan

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• SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

  Piers Anthony

  Literature, Impossible

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

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• One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

  Piers Anthony

  Block, Waiting, Suffering

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

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

  Piers Anthony

  Home, Florida, Land

  Sffworld.com Interview, www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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• 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!

  Piers Anthony

  Hopeful, Doe, Lessons

  Piers Anthony (2012). “Bearing an Hourglass”, p.359, Del Rey

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

  Piers Anthony

  Elements, Want, Guilty

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• Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.

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  Land, Shining, Dawn

  Piers Anthony (2002). “Centaur Aisle”, p.73, Del Rey

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• 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.

  Piers Anthony

  Writing, Would Be, Firsts

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

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