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Dan Simmons

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

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

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"No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published."
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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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"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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"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's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?"
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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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