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Piers Anthony Quotes

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Time Wish I Wish Need Working

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

Good Happy Writing Good Writing Read

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

War Start Madness Violence Become

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

Family Live Sea Time Wife Me

Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.

Nature Love Fear Death Curious Sex

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Jean-Marie Lehn

First Paper Rule Signals Derivatives

I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal.

Change World Help Goal I Can Person

Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.

People Nothing Personal Over Just

While actors play with guns for make-believe, the guns themselves are by no means make-believe; they're real. Even when the actor is using blanks, there are all kinds of safety protocols to follow when shooting one at someone. Pulling the trigger is the easy part.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

Safety Someone Easy Play Actor Real

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

Robert Cailliau

Green Colors See I See Because

I try to live in the moment. When you're in a singles match, you're in there, and the guy's on top of you, and you're in a hold, and you're being smothered: You're in the fight at all times. But when we're doing these team fights, you have a little time to take in the moment and just absorb the energy of the crowd.

Live Time Moment Fight Team Energy

I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.

Jayson Williams

People Always Blue-Collar Relate

I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I'm normally a bag of nerves on the train to London because you have all that time to think.

Jonas Armstrong

Live Time Think Bag Meaning You

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