Quote

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

Dan Simmons

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dan Simmons
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 4
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Peoria
Illinois
Art
Pencils
Begins
Recognize
Artists
Soon
Move
Moving
Artist
Pencil

More quotes by Dan Simmons

Image
We are all eaters of souls.
Dan Simmons
Image
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
Dan Simmons
Image
His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.
Dan Simmons
Image
You have to live to really know things, my love
Dan Simmons
Image
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
Dan Simmons
Image
All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.
Dan Simmons
Image
Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
Dan Simmons
Image
How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?
Dan Simmons
Image
Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.
Dan Simmons
Image
Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.
Dan Simmons
Image
All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.
Dan Simmons
Image
Mobs have passions, not brains.
Dan Simmons
Image
In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.
Dan Simmons
Image
Its hard to die. Harder to live
Dan Simmons
Image
If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.
Dan Simmons
Image
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
Dan Simmons
Image
Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.
Dan Simmons
Image
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher
Dan Simmons
Image
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan Simmons
Image
The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.
Dan Simmons