"The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything……" — 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 of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed."
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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.
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That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would…
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What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able…
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The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
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Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
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As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will…
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Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended…
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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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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned…
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Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his…
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I…
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The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to…
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to…
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a…
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Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it…
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.…
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in…
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to…
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An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to…
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