Best Samuel R. Delany Quotes
- Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing… Act
- Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully... Avoids
- Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say… Act
- You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you… Changes
- Endings to be useful must be inconclusive. Endings
- In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind… All
- There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why… Any
- The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be… Certain
- You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they… Any
- The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand. Hand
- Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In… Beginning
- The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ...… All
- I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in many different forms.… Different Forms
- I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census.… According
- It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of… Connect
- However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the… Actual