119 Quotes by Piers Anthony

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.

I don’t care how the sin ledger stands. There seem to be a number of artificial standards of good and evil that don’t really relate to true merit or demerit. Maybe the official system of classification has failed to keep up with the changing nature of our society.

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

How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells – some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim – when all they really needed was to be satisfied with what they already had? Sometimes what they had was better than what they thought they wanted.

I think that man was half-right. He is better off out of the game – but the game may not be better off without him. A man should not exist for himself alone. Life made an investment in him, and that investment was not paid off.

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.

Your teacher didn’t lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.

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

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.