Piers Anthony Quotes

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a writer, you are in control.

If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have anyone's words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy, just stick to novels.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

What is my intention being a filmmaker? To make as much money as possible, or get as much attention as possible? It's not really either of those things. Now I can tell the stories that I want to tell.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular vision on film and how much more control I would have if I were writing novels.

I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.

I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.

I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It's a high. I love it.

TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that.

I'm a director. My job is to think how I want to present it. If I want to say [lines] eight times or 10 times, a hundred, it's my choice. I have a certain vision. If you don't have the vision, you don't have the story, you can't be interviewed.

You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

I want to have complete control over every media so that when I make my record I put on it what I want to put on it. Not what society wants me to put on it.

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.