Jack Vance Quotes

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Jack Vance

Profession : Author

Birth : August 28, 1916

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

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I never worked in an office in my life.

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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

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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 got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

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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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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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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

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