"SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible."

Literature,

4

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible."

Explore more quotes by Piers Anthony

"Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia."

Entertainment, Distrust, Folk, Paranoia, Will

"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."

Sense,

"SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible."

Literature,

"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."

Formula, Want

"It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it."

Fiction,

"When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there."

Humorous, Fantasy, Writing

"Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels."

Work, Anticipation, Writing

"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."

Fiction, Want, Will

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

Pleasure,

"Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun."

Fiction, First, Fun, Potential

Exlpore more Literature quotes

"Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's a manageable size, it's comprehensible, while experience just steamrollers over you and you understand what happened decades later, if ever."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Literature, Fiction, Understanding, Experience, People

"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Literature, Books, Culture, Inspirational, Imagination

"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Literature, Desire, Nostalgia, Memory

"Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Literature, Sensuality, Beauty, Fiction

"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Literature, Reading, Books, Judgment, Quality

"If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Literature, Legacy, Writing, Art

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Literature, Novel, Writing, Talent, Humanity

"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

George Orwell, British Author

Literature, Writing, Prose, Creativity, Art

"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."

Stephen King, American Author

Literature, Reading, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Literature, Reading, Memory, Brother, Poetry