John Clute quotes
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“Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)”
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“We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.”
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“Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.”
-- John CluteSource : "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.
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“Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.”
-- John CluteSource : "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.
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“Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.”
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Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011
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“Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.”
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