Author: Samuel R. Delany

Quotes

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 order of actual occurrence.

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 order of actual occurrence.

- Samuel R. Delany

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

- Samuel R. Delany

How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

- Samuel R. Delany

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 the original.

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 the original.

- Samuel R. Delany

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

- Samuel R. Delany

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