Dan Simmons Quotes
"No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Writer)
"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Truth, Career, Effect)
"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 a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Art, Trust, Effort)
"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Common sense, Writing)
"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Church)
"It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?"
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Humor, Violence)
"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Being)
"I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Being, Writer)
"But it's not just a game of finding literary references."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Literary)
"But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Science, Hope, Fiction)
"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 curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Curriculum, Improvement, Pretty, Years)
"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 literary SF."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: History, Movies, Complexity, Film, Literary)
"It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Profession, Relax, Writers, Writing)