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
life real way
Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.
self way waste
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
past way rising
The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
life loss way
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
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.
love love-is lust
Love is nothing but lust misspelled.
trust art believe
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.
understanding lasts welcome
It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.