There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age. Jack Vance taught me that speculative fiction, science fiction, could be wonderfully and liberatingly stylistic. It didn't have to be pulp stuff. He really changed my writing and my view of science fiction, so if nothing else, my little homage to him in the novelette I wrote for that anthology is my thank-you to him. He helped me see that any genre can have excellent writing in it.
Dan SimmonsLife is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
Dan SimmonsWords are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.
Dan SimmonsThe past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
Dan SimmonsThe beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.
Dan Simmons