Books Quote by Samuel R. Delany

“Two things can keep the common reader going, argument or story. (Both are always involved, however subtly, in good fiction.)”

— John Gardner

“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.”

— T. Scott McLeod

“I consider all things a work of fiction, even myself.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.”

— Thomas C. Foster

“The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything.”

— Ray Bradbury

“The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction.…

— J. W. Lord

“I will read just about any book at least once! No matter what genre, I just love to read!”

— Traci Wilcox

“But fiction has the unique power of revealing something true.”

— Ali Smith

“When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much…

— Haruki Murakami

“When written correctly, science fiction is science prophecy.”

— Shawn Stern