"That was asking a lot of my readers,……" — Paul Di Filippo

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I… - 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."

— Paul Di Filippo

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35 Quotes by Paul Di Filippo

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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able…
The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will…
Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended…
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned…
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his…
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I…
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to…
Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or…

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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the… — Paul Auster
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. — John Perry Barlow
I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work. — Todd Barry
I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things… — Glenn Beck
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very… — Juliette Binoche
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland. — Bjork
Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a… — Lewis Black
I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic. — Orlando Bloom
It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American… — John Boehner
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better… — Erma Bombeck
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure… — Jorge Luis Borges

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