Writer Quotes by Samuel R. Delany

12 Writer quotes by Samuel R. Delany

All Writer quotes Samuel R. Delany’s page

Delany’s concise thoughts encourage writers to push boundaries and experiment with form. They provide a quick, thought‑provoking glimpse into a bold creative mindset.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

Samuel R. Delany

Image

Suggestion is a literary strategy.

Samuel R. Delany

Image

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

Samuel R. Delany

Image

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully...

Samuel R. Delany

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

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

Image

“Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader’s mind —…

Samuel R. Delany

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

Image

It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke…

Samuel R. Delany

Image

“Though they have things in common, good writing and talented writing are not the same. […] If you start with a confused,…

Samuel R. Delany

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

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

Image

Other authors on Writer

More by Samuel R. Delany

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

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

Image

What you are will make you what you will become.

Samuel R. Delany

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

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

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

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

Image

“they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.”

Samuel R. Delany

Image

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

Samuel R. Delany

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