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
fate men arrows
Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.
reality mad poet
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.
decision made seconds
In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.
art moving artist
Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.
forever religion endymion
If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.
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.
book abandoned finished
No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.
teacher unusual being-a-teacher
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher
humor together violence
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
wanted
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed
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.
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.