All Paul Di Filippo Quotes
- The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. Affect
- That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding. Asking
- What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly… Able
- The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate? Clock
- Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. Best
- As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow… Authors
- Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended to younger writers following in… Adjective
- The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. Antecedents
- Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of… Apart
- Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality,… Contentious
- The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from… Acknowledged
- The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic… Age
- Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy),… All
- 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, some… Bag
- I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel or two -… Adult
- Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind - or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters. Without an established… Any
- The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of… Ancestor
- Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds:… Best
- The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting… Authors
- Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and humbuggery… Acknowledging
- The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the… Air
- Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all… Advertisement
- There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance… Affairs
- Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct… Akin
- The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad,… Abilities