Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
Dan SimmonsThe sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.
Dan SimmonsSeduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
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