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
art opportunity skills
Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
real imagination people
...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world'...
identity tests acid
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.
book men two
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.
sex pain mistake
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.
long humanity evolution
Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.
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?