Piers Anthony

I retaliated by visiting on them all manner of mischief, but I concluded, after some centuries of chronic relapsing on their part, that rage and punishment was not the best way to hold a clientele. It is only the most primitive of mortals who is swayed by that sort of thing.

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934, in Oxford) is an English America fantasy and science-fiction author.

Quotes

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

• I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humourous, and continued from there. I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
  • As quoted in 100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors (2005) by Bernard Alger Drew, p. 11

For Love of Evil (1988)

• I retaliated by visiting on them all manner of mischief, but I concluded, after some centuries of chronic relapsing on their part, that rage and punishment was not the best way to hold a clientele. It is only the most primitive of mortals who is swayed by that sort of thing.
  • JHVH speaking to Satan, about humans, after their worship of the Golden Calf

Ghost (1986)

• I realized suddenly that I was in an impossible situation, and there was really no way out. No acceptable way. I could not go on — so I stopped.
  • Alice, on her suicide

External links

• Official web site
• Complete bibliography