Daniel Abraham cytaty

Daniel James Abraham – amerykański pisarz, twórca science-fiction i fantasy.

Jego krótkie opowiadania pojawiły się w wielu publikacjach i antologiach. Wspólnie z Ty Franckiem pod pseudonimem James S.A. Corey napisał Przebudzenie Leviatana, która zostało nominowane w 2012 roku do nagrody Hugo za najlepszą powieść oraz nagrody Locusa za najlepszą nowelę science-fiction. Jego utwór Flat Diane został nominowany do nagroda nagrody Nebula. The Cambist oraz Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics zostały nominowane do Hugo oraz Nagrody World Fantasy.

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✵ 14. Listopad 1969
Daniel Abraham Fotografia
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Daniel Abraham słynne cytaty

„To nie śmierć nas zabija. To strach.”

Smocza droga
Źródło: s. 450.

„Czasami łatwiej jest zaufać wrogowi niż przyjacielowi.”

Smocza droga
Źródło: s. 532.

Daniel Abraham: Cytaty po angielsku

“What I want to do is write something that I could read now (39 years old, married, raising a kid, 10 year IT career behind me, post 9-11, post-Bush, etc.) with the same joy I read the Belgariad when I was 16.”

talking about http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/30792-daniel-abraham/page__st__60 his epic fantasy series The Dagger and the Coin
Kontekst: For the moment, it's called the Dagger and the Coin, but with any luck, that'll swap out for a better name. There are some things in the proposal that need to get smoothed out so that everyone's on board, but I think it'll happen.
It's a very different from the Long Price books. It looks and feels more like traditional epic fantasy -- quasi-Europe, ferinstance, and some dragons in the background, no 15-year gaps between books -- but the plot structure is packed with everything I think is cool. There are echoes I'm intentionally building in of from things as familiar as Firefly and The Count of Monte Cristo and as obscure as Tevis' Queen's Gambit and Reck-Malleczewen's Diary of a Man in Despair. And the magic system is all about faith and deception, which will be tricky and fun both.
What I want to do is write something that I could read now (39 years old, married, raising a kid, 10 year IT career behind me, post 9-11, post-Bush, etc.) with the same joy I read the Belgariad when I was 16.

“I think that the soul of fantasy—or second-world fantasy at least—is our problematic relationship with nostalgia.”

Kontekst: I don't find fantasy to be more or less suited to philosophical questions than any other genre, really. I think that the soul of fantasy—or second-world fantasy at least—is our problematic relationship with nostalgia. The impulse to return to a golden age seems to be pretty close to the bone, at least in western cultures, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's a human universal. For me, it's tied up with the experience of aging and the impulse to recapture youth. Epic fantasy, I think, takes its power from that. We create golden eras and either celebrate them or—more often—mourn their loss.

Interview with Peter Orullian http://orullian.com/writing/danielabraham_interview.html

“I think that the successful genres of a particular period are reflections of the needs and thoughts and social struggles of that time. When you see a bunch of similar projects meeting with success, you’ve found a place in the social landscape where a particular story (or moral or scenario) speaks to readers. You’ve found a place where the things that stories offer are most needed.”

On his blog, talking about genre http://www.danielabraham.com/?p=160
Kontekst: I think that the successful genres of a particular period are reflections of the needs and thoughts and social struggles of that time. When you see a bunch of similar projects meeting with success, you’ve found a place in the social landscape where a particular story (or moral or scenario) speaks to readers. You’ve found a place where the things that stories offer are most needed.
And since the thing that stories most often offer is comfort, you’ve found someplace rich with anxiety and uncertainty. (That’s what I meant when I said to Melinda Snodgrass that genre is where fears pool.)

“I think there's a real tension between sophistication and accessibility.”

interview with Locus Magazine, June 2008
Kontekst: Writers are a basically insecure bunch. We are convinced that everything we do sucks, all the time. It's something you have to fight. The best way to make sure that your writing will never be particularly good is to use it for something besides telling the story. And I think there's a real tension between sophistication and accessibility.

“Too many dots,” Miller said. “Not enough lines.”

Źródło: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 10 (p. 109)

“Never knew if you had any luck left unless you pushed it.”

Źródło: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 187)

“Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.”

Źródło: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 42 (p. 427)

“It’s the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.”

Źródło: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 19 (p. 194)

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