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- The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled by…
- From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.
- All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from…
- It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
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