The best advice that an accomplished writer could give a beginning writer is probably, "Find your slide and … - Dan Simmons

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Dan Simmons

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.

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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

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There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.

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What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

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God is found in this Life. . . to wait for another is folly.

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