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• The truth is, it’s not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

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• There’s a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don’t believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

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• It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

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• But it’s not just a game of finding literary references.

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• But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

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• As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it’s not meant to be a prediction.

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• I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

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• Writing, I’m convinced, should be a subversive activity – frowned on by the authorities – and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

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• I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

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• As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.

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• No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

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• Movie 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.

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• It’s one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

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• It’s odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn’t it?

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Dan Simmons (14)

Birth:	4th May, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle. He spans genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy, sometimes within the same novel: a typical example of Simmons' ability to intermingle genres is Song of Kali, winner of World Fantasy Award. He is also a respected author of mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.

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