Piers Anthony Quotes

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.

Piers Anthony

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 6, 1934

Topics

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I really write for people.

John Eaton

PeopleWriteReally

One of the things that always disappointed me as a kid, growing up, was when you could tell the singer had a fancy for something different and turned the band into something else.

Andy Biersack

MeGrowing UpYouGrowingSingerUp

I'm a spiritual person. I do believe in a higher power. I believe God placed me on this planet to be a beneficial presence.

Sterling K. Brown

GodPowerSpiritualMeBelieve

I think the way poems are taught to high school students is completely counterintuitive; it sets up this sense of being the poem's adversary. The poem is sort of sneakily trying to outsmart you.

Tracy K. Smith

SchoolHigh SchoolThinkTryingYou

I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

Lucille Ball

LiveTruthHopeMyselfBookThink

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

Cliff Shaw

CommunicationPersonalityProblems

We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.

Paul Watson

WaterCityMindSomeoneYouLook

I've never looked at film-making as a career. I've looked on film-making as an adventure. When you come down the mountain, you get ready to climb again.

Shekhar Kapur

MountainAdventureClimbYouCareer

The first stage I preformed on were the stairs to the hallway in the living room. There was a really nice platform, and when people were sitting in the living room, it was kind of an elevated platform and we would put on shows and skits.

Sean Astin

PeopleStairsNiceLivingSitting

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

Linda McMahon

ChangePeopleYouKnowPersonal

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

Leo Durocher

MotherWinWinningYouNiceRun

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Guy Kawasaki

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