Dan Simmons

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

— Dan Simmons

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

— Dan Simmons

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

— Dan Simmons

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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. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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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 literary SF. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#been #complexity #definition #down #film

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

— Dan Simmons

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

— Dan Simmons

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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

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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 by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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

— Dan Simmons

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