"It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri." — Dan Simmons

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

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