I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
In the arts, people are always waiting for someone or some movement to "fulfill her/its/his promise." Then, half-a-dozen or a dozen years… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to… — 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
Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study -… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
My family trained me to be polite to people I had just met, and that included strangers. You speak when you're spoken… — 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
