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. Dan Simmons Read Quote
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. Dan Simmons Read Quote
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. Dan Simmons Read Quote
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. Dan Simmons Read Quote
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 Simmons Read Quote
The truth is, it’s not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them. Dan Simmons Read Quote
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. Dan Simmons Read Quote
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. Dan Simmons Read Quote
