Writer Quotes by Paul Di Filippo

13 Writer quotes by Paul Di Filippo

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Paul Di Filippo’s 13 quirky remarks blend humor with a love of speculative storytelling. They give readers a playful taste of how a writer can juggle imagination, genre conventions, and the sheer joy of invention.

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As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be…

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For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written…

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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

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The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B.…

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Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is…

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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…

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'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth.…

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The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying,…

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Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered…

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Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over…

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Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed…

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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.…

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What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...…

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The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and touchstones employed…

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It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially…

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The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war…

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The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

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The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes…

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The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition.…

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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

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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…

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That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

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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…

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