Dan Simmons American Author Quotations

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.

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

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.

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?

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.