John Clute Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by John Clute:

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


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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.
~John Clute


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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


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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 Clute


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