Happy Children Do Not Seem To Grow

At This Slower Pace The Journey Took A Couple Of Days, And I Fought Off A Few Minor Threats Along The Way --griffins, Carnivorous Plants, Giant Serpents, Hostile Centaurs, That Sort Of Thing, Purely Routine --and I Was Beginning To Get Bored When At Last The Dusky Towers Of Castle Roogna Hove Into View.

When You Steal From The Library, You Are Preventing Anyone Else From Reading That Book, And The Very Notion Makes Me Want To Drop You In The Void.

I Think It's A Shame That Something As Creative And Vital To The Nature Of The Human Species As Story-telling Is Largely Controlled By The Soulless Cretins Known As Publishers.

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.

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.