Paul Di Filippo Quotes

Jeff VanderMeer's fiction has always been entrancingly, engagingly, enthusiastically weird, a winning combination of mimesis and the fantastical that privileges neither component: perhaps the very definition of that mode categorized as the 'New Weird' and exemplified most famously by the groundbreaking work of China Mieville.

Paul Di Filippo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 29, 1954

Topics

WorkWinningWeirdNewAlwaysChina

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.

Matthew Rhys

MemoriesTimeWarMeColdRemember

The early firings contained many stones.

Andy Goldsworthy

EarlyStonesManyContained

Payable On Death is actually a banking term, when someone passes on, what someone leaves behind. We related that to Jesus on the cross, and by his death, our sins are paid, the debt is paid. We have salvation if we want it. We got tired of saying Payable On Death, so we went to P.O.D.

Sonny Sandoval

DeathTiredSayingSomeoneWant

I get butterflies before going out to ride every day, but they disappear as soon as I am on a horse, and I think that is the same for most jockeys. Then it is just down to you and the horse, and there is a certain freedom in that.

Tony McCoy

FreedomDayRideI AmThinkHorse

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Rob Portman

GoodYouSecurityFixStartingEven

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

Roger Ebert

PeopleRichGoingSomedayFactMost

I truly love everything about India. I love the fact I can uplift my soul, energy to higher heights.

Rohan Marley

LoveSoulEnergyMy SoulI Can

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

Mickey Spillane

NameHouseNamesHighLevelStarted

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

Lorna Luft

MomFriendsJust OneJustSinatra

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

Julia Hartz

GoodRhetoricAroundThrowing

My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats.

Jason Wu

DogLoveCatsBecauseChineseMuch

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

Denis Kearney

ScienceGovernmentCityCorruption

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