A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“But the point is, when the writer turns to address the reader, he or she must not only speak to me—naively dazzled… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
'Dhalgren' is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried to put as… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“People probably do hear watches go tic-tok. But I’m sure my childhood clock went tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic…Why” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“I wanted to get out, Vyme, to keep going and not be trapped, to be free.... only I was cruel. I had the chance… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Neurotics, proceed with delusions of grandeur. Napoleon Bonaparte, take the lead. Jesus Christ, bring up the rear. Simulate severe depression. Non-communicative with repressed hostility.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
