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
harder hard dies
Its hard to die. Harder to live
war lessons may
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.
dream machines sometimes
Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.
matter events masters
It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
economy petroleum
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.
revelations planets whole
The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.
rome barbarians ruins
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.
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.
teaching school years
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri
ignorance routes absolutes
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
dark historical afar
History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.
snipers bullets poet
Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
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.
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'...