Jack Vance Quotes
32 Jack Vance quotes:
"As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time."
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"But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection."
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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 thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."
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"It's just I wanted to get myself in a line of work where I didn't have a boss, where I didn't have to show up any place at any particular time."
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"So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times."
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"This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late."
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"I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do."
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"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."
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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
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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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"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 haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet."
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"I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough."
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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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"In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you."
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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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