It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
Dan SimmonsIn twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.
Dan SimmonsPrison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
Dan SimmonsMovie 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.
Dan Simmons