Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by John Clute

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian author John Clute.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
John Clute

John Frederick Clute is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history" and "perhaps the foremost reader-critic of sf in our time, and one of the best the genre has ever known." He was one of eight people who founded the English magazine Interzone in 1982.

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) — © John Clute
Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)
We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.
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.
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.
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