Samuel R. Delany Quotes - Page 4

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• 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 book ends.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Book, Numbers, Mystery

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2001.

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• It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Artist, Turns

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• The rich are always enamored of the ancient.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Ancient, Rich, Enamored

  Samuel R. Delany (1968). “Nova”

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• I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Life, Suspects

  Samuel R. Delany, Carl Howard Freedman (2009). “Conversations with Samuel R. Delany”, p.62, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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 like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Real, Writing, Hunting

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• Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Running, Moon, Clouds

  "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.

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• Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Survival, Boring, Minutes

  Samuel R. Delany (1993). “Tales of Nevèrÿon”, p.97, Wesleyan University Press

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• 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 sometimes I act like I don't see you? I don't even know where to look! Living with you around is like is like living with a permanent dazzle. The fact that you even like me, or look at me, or brush by me, or hug me, or hold me, is so surprising that after it's over I have to go back through it a dozen times in my head to savor it and try and figure out what it was like because I was too busy being astounded while it was happening.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hug, Trying, Looks

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• Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Power, Garden, Records

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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 emotions left and right, whether arising from sexuality or resulting from his necessary encounters with authority - this hero is a blessing, a relief and a release. The world he lives in, where feelings are totally under control, looks to the adolescent boy like heaven! This hero's lack of feeling - like Star Trek's Spock - is what allows him to be a genius, or allows him to shoot the bad guys and/or aliens, without a quiver to his lip.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Stars, Hero, Boys

  "Space Cowboy: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany". Interview with Scott Westerfeld, www.nerve.com. 2001.

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