Dan Simmons

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.