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Dan Simmons Quotes

American - Author | April 4, 1948 -

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

Truth Great Truth Is Career Create

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.

Art Trust Best Effort Me Bond

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

School Small Small Town Years Town

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

Game Finding Just References

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Hope Science Think Science Fiction

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

Church Meant To Be Catholic Church

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

Being Writer Even Knew Before

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.

Teacher Writing Common Sense Beyond

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

Teacher Loved Everything Unusual

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.

Alone Improvement Me Long Create

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

Me Write Inspired Writer Published

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

History Down Three Movies Aspire

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