John Clute Quotes & Sayings

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 Clute

We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves. — John Clute

Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre. — John Clute

Sense of Wonder ( ... ) may be defined as a shift in perspective so that the reader, having been made suddenly aware of the true scale of an event or venue, responds to the revelation with awe. — John Clute

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) — John Clute

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 Clute