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> [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 of the Pill,' I have no other recourse, since his narrative is full of larger-than-life characters…](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/)

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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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