Jack Vance Quotes
32 Jack Vance quotes:
"A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment."
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"As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time."
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"But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it."
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"But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection."
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"But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction."
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"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."
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"I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do."
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"I don't have much vanity. I just know what I do. I just do because I'm capable of doing it and do it easily without any pretentiousness."
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"I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all."
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"I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book."
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"I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to."
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"I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet."
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"I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell."
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"I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough."
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"I never worked in an office in my life."
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"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."
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"I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do."
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"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
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"I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things."
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"I'd never been published when I was young."
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