Paul Di Filippo Quotes

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia work, this book earns that distinction.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.