It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s. Samuel R. Delany More Quotes by Samuel R. Delany More Quotes From Samuel R. Delany I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big investment for an artist. So unless you've got someone who wants to pay you while you're doing it or up front, it's kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you're the artist yourself. Samuel R. Delany artist ordinary thinking I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever found...I would have been so much happier as an adolescent if NAMBLA had been around when I was 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Samuel R. Delany sexuality intelligent thinking 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 creative inspiration people 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 mystery numbers book I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off. Samuel R. Delany writing pay I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently. Samuel R. Delany lazy people thinking From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer. Samuel R. Delany black gay 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 What you are will make you what you will become. Samuel R. Delany The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life. Samuel R. Delany done sex people Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again. Samuel R. Delany acting watches interesting Ambition like a liquid ruby stains. Samuel R. Delany liquid rubies ambition Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself. Samuel R. Delany fantasy goes-on reality 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 records garden power If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful. Samuel R. Delany servant powerful grace Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else. Samuel R. Delany pain enough long Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion. Samuel R. Delany confusion half order The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting in ash and smoke, roaming the apocryphal cities, the cities of speculation and reconstituted disorder, of insemination and incipience, swept round with the dark. Samuel R. Delany cities dark night Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing. Samuel R. Delany money lying hands I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated. Samuel R. Delany suspects life
