Dan Simmons Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

  Trust, Art, Believe

• I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.

  Dan Simmons

  Giving, Despair, President

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Carrion Comfort”, p.15, Macmillan

• The best advice that an accomplished writer could give a beginning writer is probably, "Find your slide and then grease it." Almost every writer that wants a rewarding career, in terms of money and status and number of readers, finally finds a certain genre or certain style that he or she sticks with until reaching a critical mass of readership. And I've violated this from the get-go.

  Dan Simmons

  Giving, Advice, Grease

  Source: www.avclub.com

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