62 Quotes by Paul Di Filippo

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.

The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.

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.

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk – a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts – in its own image.

Every Luke Skywalker needs his Darth Vader.