Paul Di Filippo Quotes & Sayings
57 most famous Paul Di Filippo quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Of the birth of subgenres, there is no end. They arise like bubbles full of miraculous hopes and potentials from the Planckian foam of the canon, inspiring writers new and established alike.”
“You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.”
“Every Luke Skywalker needs his Darth Vader.”
“Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.”
“It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.”
“The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.”
“The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the diss became the standard.”
“Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind - or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters. Without an established audience in place, first-time authors have to hope for resonant word of mouth and a receptive reviewer or three.”
“Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.”
“Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered the literary landscape for the better, opening new textual doors and engaging new readers. That the author's oeuvre was essential and irreplaceable and transformative.”
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