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
real childhood geography
What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?
life real way
Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.
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'...
mean reality thinking
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.
real reality imagination
His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.
blow reality wind
The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.
reality mad poet
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.
helped identify studies
Dr. Livingston's studies helped us identify the problems.
finding miss trouble
You'll have no trouble finding it. You just can't miss it.
american-author finding game literary
But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
american-author finest iliad literature piece possibly respect
I have more respect for The Iliad now than I've ever had, and I've always thought it was possibly the finest piece of literature there was.
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Finally, there's the simple fact that I would be bored silly if I read in only one genre or one type of author - so why write in only one form?
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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.
pain flower grief
Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.