No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Who was Hitler?' I said. Tyrena smiled slightly. 'An Old Earth politician who did some writing.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“This is poetry. You’re writing about Heaven’s Gate and the Caribou Herd, but what comes across is loneliness, displacement, angst, and a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us... — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Reading had always been another world for him. Not an escape, since he rarely sought escape ... writers had to confront the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“It isn’t hard being a hack writer. Between Dying Earth II and Dying Earth IX, six standard years had passed relatively painlessly.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“That’s what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks’ thoughts. Feel their… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The never-ending competition between writers hasn't changed between 1868 and 2000. I used to belong to writers' workshops with other professionals, but… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I think challenges are what any decent writer would be all about. If you actually do find your slide and grease it,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
When I get about five readers I can rub together in one genre, I leave that genre and go somewhere else. And… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The best advice that an accomplished writer could give a beginning writer is probably, "Find your slide and then grease it." Almost… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
“The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
“In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham’s answer… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
“After seven centuries of existence and at least four centuries where few citizens existed without it, the datasphere – including the All Thing and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
“THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL BE RESTORED… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space. — Dan Simmons Copy Share
“Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...] I did not know what to say to this. Maybe reading… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
