"Supaya bibir kita jangan terpeleset,
Lima hal mesti kita perhatikan baik-baik:
Kepada siapa kita berbicara, siapa yang kita bicarakan, bagaimana, kapan dan di mana kita berbicara."
— W. E. Norris

"You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living."
— A.E. Van Vogt

"There were, of course, tales of aplenty of heroes defeating monsters in song and story, mostly coming from the mythical traditions of Europe. And it's true that witches and monsters had plagued mankind in stories and poems for as long as the printing press had turned out pamphlets and newspapers. What had never been tried before, though, was the crystallization of the two worlds, authored in place by a single, heroic protagonist.

(about Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane)"
— Mark Finn (Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard)