All Dan Simmons Quotes
- Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. Anticlimax
- She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out… Afternoon
- Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful… Alloy
- Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery. Classical
- It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying… Enjoy
- The pack of media brayed and bellowed outside the house for seven weeks. Sol realized then what he had known and forgotten about very small… Annoying
- It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it? Go
- Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to… Aspire
- But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. Enjoyed
- 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… Any
- Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence… Argued
- Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. Mad
- What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods? All
- There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked… All
- It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. Attributes
- No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. Ellison
- The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them. Abandon
- A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water… Beings
- Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological… Ancient
- It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. Depend
- Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. Allegiance
- This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us... Breakdown
- ...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people… Call
- Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief… Acid
- Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and… Besides