Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmonsis an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
teacher writing common-sense
Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
average years long
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
teaching school years
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri
teacher unusual being-a-teacher
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher
wanted
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed
memories childhood remember
The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.
memories mind lifetime
How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?
memories confusing emotion
Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?
power style currency
Power: a currency that never went out of style.
ignorance shields losing
Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
writing relax exhausted
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
writing inspired terrified
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
moving careers truth-is
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
night light sound
Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.