Paul Di Filippo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
-- Paul Di Filippo

#Bored #Events #Chance
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.
-- Paul Di Filippo

#Writing #Trying #Asking
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback.
-- Paul Di Filippo

#Encouragement #Writing #Ideas
The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
-- Paul Di Filippo

#Art #Philosophy #History
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
-- Paul Di Filippo

#Crazy #Fiction #Safe
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
-- Paul Di Filippo

#Emotional #Tone #Hot
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
-- Paul Di Filippo

#Race #Fiction #Literature
Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia work, this book earns that distinction.
-- Paul Di Filippo

#Clever #Book #Language
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
-- Paul Di Filippo

#Generations #Subtext #Remakes

I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored
I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance,
The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flowâ€¦
Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.

Paul Di Filippo famous quotes

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