I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed
Dan SimmonsSeduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
Dan SimmonsThe problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
Dan SimmonsI despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.
Dan SimmonsPoetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.
Dan Simmons