Samuel R. Delany - Remember Quotes

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"The parts I like, well..." He shook his head, with pursed lips. "They just don't have anything to do with me: somebody else wrote them, it seems, about things I may have thought about once. The parts I don't like—well, I can remember writing those, oh yeah, word by word by word."

Samuel R. Delany

I must remember my own origins. Once I was as ignorant as you; I swear, though, I can't remember when.

Samuel R. Delany

Always remember the objects you are working with. When you make a bridge, remember you are putting steel on stone and dirt. … Some day you will write poems to a little girl: marks with ink on paper. … When you are making love, you are moving flesh against flesh. That is the basis of all magic.

Samuel R. Delany