17 Quotes by Damon Knight

The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people’s desire to believe that there is – some group of folks who know what they’re doing.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

A retired bank vice-president named Harry Breitfeller, who lived in a comfortable duplex in Santa Monica with his wife and other relatives, stepped out on the cement porch a little after nine one morning to pick up the mail. There were half a dozen envelopes, mostly bills, in the mailbox, and a whacking big cardboard carton on the porch under it. Breitfeller picked up the carton, thinking it must be something his wife had ordered, but saw that his own name was on the label.

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.

There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.

One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.

As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.