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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
- The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them. — Dan Simmons
- But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. — Dan Simmons
- I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher. — Dan Simmons