It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of micromemories from your own experience that inmix, join, and connect in your mind in an order the writer controls, so that, in effect, you have a sustained memory of something that never happened to you.
-Samuel R. Delany
Select a background
More quotes by Samuel R. Delany
Popular Authors
A curated listing of popular authors.