Readercon 15, Burlington, MA, 11-13 July 2003
Ambizione!
"Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function." - Italo Calvino
Barry Malzberg:
"The most ambitious thing I ever tried was to make a living as a science fiction writer. I did not succeed."
"Do I seem jaded? I'm luxuriating in despair!"
"My ambition is to arrive home safely in Teaneck, New Jersey."
Laurie J. Marks
"Isn't just putting a word on a page an act of hope, of ambition, innately? Why would we bother, otherwise? There are so many easier things to do, really."
