As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

- Paul Di Filippo

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

- Paul Di Filippo

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

- Paul Di Filippo

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

- Paul Di Filippo

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

- Paul Di Filippo

Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any pr…

- Paul Di Filippo

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from…

- Paul Di Filippo

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

- Paul Di Filippo

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

- Paul Di Filippo