Piers Anthony Quotes

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

~ 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

Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself.Bink put his face in his hands and cried.

~ Piers Anthony

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

Only in Xanth would parents see a dragon looming over their children and depart with confidence.

~ Piers Anthony

Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.

~ Piers Anthony

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

~ Piers Anthony

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

~ Piers Anthony

For an instant Stile was daunted by the improbability of it all: a man, a cyborg, a robot, an animalhead, and a wooden golem, all riding unicorns through a battlefield strewn with goblins and dragons, pursuing an invaluable ball of power-rock that rolled along a channel cleared by plastic explosive. What a mishmash!

~ Piers Anthony

A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.

~ Piers Anthony

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’re not that way from perversity, and we cannot just let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

~ Piers Anthony

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

By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.

~ Piers Anthony

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

~ Piers Anthony

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

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

~ Piers Anthony