Dan Simmons Quotes - 9quotes.com

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Written by Dan Simmons
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
Written by Dan Simmons
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
Written by Dan Simmons
But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
Written by Dan Simmons
As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
Written by Dan Simmons

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