People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it. Piers Anthony More Quotes by Piers Anthony More Quotes From Piers Anthony 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 coward courage fear 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 letting-go happy inspirational 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 guilty sometimes 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 library comfort mind 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 library reading book But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road. Piers Anthony distressing One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless. Piers Anthony opinion one-day people All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense. Piers Anthony fathom make-sense all-things SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. Piers Anthony literature impossible 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 suffering waiting Obviously it could be, because it was. Piers Anthony 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 rocks cutting writing 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 lessons doe 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 creative stories thinking For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be. Piers Anthony finished stories 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. Piers Anthony shining land dawn Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers. Piers Anthony growing-up grows children Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges. Piers Anthony hate real evil Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph Piers Anthony way 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 would-be writing firsts
