"When such books influence you... it’s what you imagine they do that they don’t do that you yourself then try to effect in your own work[. T]he... things they might have accomplished expands your own palette of aesthetic possibilities in the ways that... will be your offering on the altar of originality.."-- Samuel R. Delany, The Art of Fiction No. 210 [Paris Review Interview by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah]
APB-SAL is a blog about education, science, science education, fiction, science fiction, literature, literary stories, poetry, and anything else that strikes the blogger's fancy. NOTE: This blog interrogates art. It rarely make moral proclamations. For that attend the church or politician of your choice. This blog concerns aesthetics, not propaganda. Consider this as interviews with books where the interviewer presents interviewees, so you get what you need to do your own thinking.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Samuel R. Delany on true influence
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