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14 quotes by Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American writer most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle. His work spans the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel: a typical example of Simmons' ability to intermingle genres is Song of Kali (1985), winner of World Fantasy Award. He is also a respected author of mysteries and...
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

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It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense... →

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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

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As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own... →

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Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of... →

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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

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