And not only narrativity but the quality of the writing is of the first importance to me. Rightly or not, I believe a dull, inept style signals poverty or incompleteness of thought. I see the accuracy...
And here’s an example of deliberate violation of a Fake Rule: Fake Rule: The generic pronoun in English is he. Violation: Each one in turn reads their piece aloud. This is wrong, say the grammar b...
All the mystery and wisdom of the masters, when it's out in the daylight, doesn't amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade. Wonderful illusions. But people don't want to know that. They want t...
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other peopl...
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people...
All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apartfrom older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new metaphors, drawn fromcertain great dominants of our contemporary life --...
Alas, I had no power, at that time, to combat the flat refusal of many cover departments to put people of color on a book jacket. So, through many later, lily-white Geds, Ruth Robbins’s painting for t...
Ai was exhausted and enraged. He looked ready to cry, but did not. I believe he considers crying either evil or shameful. Even when he was very ill and weak, the first days of our escape, he hid his f...
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!
I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.
'They eat their kind,' he said, 'Like men.'
'The fact is,' I said, 'that you're unable, or unwilling, to believe in the fact that I believe in you.'
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean jo...
Той вървеше, а до него крачеше нежната, покорна, неуморима жена.
По-късно, когато Гед размишляваше за тази нощ, стана му ясно, че ако никой не го бе докоснал, докато лежеше бездиханен, ако никой не го бе повикал по някакъв начин, той щеше да си отиде завинаги. Спас...
Откакто се помнеше — а не беше кой знае колко отдавна — музиката винаги го беше привличала и плашила, изпълвайки го с някакво мъчително удоволствие, понякога граничещо с мъчението. Звукът на пеещия чо...
Ölümden korkuyordum. Ölümden o kadar korkuyordum ki belki de ölüyorsunuzdur diye, size bakamıyordum bile. Benim için ölmemenin, eğer bulabilirsem, bir... bir yolu olduğundan başka hiçbir şey düşünemiy...
You’re not a traitor, you’ve merely been the tool of one. I don’t punish tools. They do harm only in the hands of a bad workman.
The process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not...