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
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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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I really appreciated his theme of life evolving from one race of gods to another, with one power having to give way to another, as Hyperion must.
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This is a grassroots-level venue that offers an avenue for anglers that aren't necessarily on a professional level.
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War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.
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There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction
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Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.
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In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.
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Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.
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No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher
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It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
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Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.