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> [Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/writers-begin-changing-the-instant-they-append-the-end-to-a-novel/)

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> [One posthumous measure of a person's life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never lived to encounter. You picture his reactions, his advice, his sage commentary and humorous asides. For instance, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/one-posthumous-measure-of-a-person-s-life-is-how-often-you-imagine/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

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## More by Paul Di Filippo

> [“Smellin' the beefaloes and leanpigs turnin' on their spits, holding a cold cheer-beer in my hand, watchin' the stars poppin' out one by one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/smellin-the-beefaloes-and-leanpigs-turnin-on-their-spits-holding-a/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/the-way-i-was-educated-maybe-from-just-inhaling-something-in-the-air/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/the-sf-genre-of-course-is-really-an-organically-evolved-marketplace/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/writing-one-s-first-novel-getting-it-sold-and-shepherding-it-through/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's 'The Birth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/it-s-certainly-a-cliche-to-remark-that-a-nonfiction-book-reads-just/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and touchstones employed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/technically-and-logically-speaking-actual-victorian-science-fiction/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/it-is-truly-bracing-and-instructive-to-contemplate-the-end-times-at/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/the-advent-of-aids-circa-1980-has-really-forced-medicine-and-biology/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/the-sentient-beast-has-long-been-a-staple-of-fantasy-fiction-and-its/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/the-impossibility-of-a-sequel-ever-recapturing-everything-or-anything/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/the-lives-of-most-authors-even-or-perhaps-especially-the-great-ones/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/the-emotional-tone-or-affect-of-the-tale-should-be-hot-and-engaged/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/writers-begin-changing-the-instant-they-append-the-end-to-a-novel/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/that-was-asking-a-lot-of-my-readers-i-realized-but-i-was-trying-to/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

> [Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/science-offers-no-brief-for-the-telekinetic-powers-of-darth-vader-and/)

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