Norman Spinrad

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

— Norman Spinrad

I never learned to read music.

— Norman Spinrad

I write in American slang.

— Norman Spinrad

I was a precocious reader.

— Norman Spinrad

“You look as if you have bitten into a turd.”

— Norman Spinrad

Is anything accidental?

— Norman Spinrad

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

— Norman Spinrad

The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.

— Norman Spinrad

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

— Norman Spinrad

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

— Norman Spinrad

“You can't make a revolutionary omelet without breaking heads.”

— Norman Spinrad

You can really do more than you think you can do.

— Norman Spinrad

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

— Norman Spinrad

“It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.”

— Norman Spinrad

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

— Norman Spinrad

“We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.”

— Norman Spinrad

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

— Norman Spinrad

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates…

— Norman Spinrad

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and…

— Norman Spinrad

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal…

— Norman Spinrad

“Stay a dreamer, and you'll never have your dream; get down in the nitty-gritty, and when you get your dream you see…

— Norman Spinrad

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

— Norman Spinrad

It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that…

— Norman Spinrad

“[SF] was a commercial genre born in the old adventure pulp magazines of the first third of the twentieth century, aimed primarily…

— Norman Spinrad

“Cat Rambo: Where do you think the perennial debate between what is literary fiction and what is genre is sited? Norman Spinrad:…

— Norman Spinrad

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

— Norman Spinrad

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

— Norman Spinrad

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

— Norman Spinrad

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

— Norman Spinrad

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

— Norman Spinrad

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

— Norman Spinrad

“The saddest day of your life isn't when you decide to sell out. The saddest day of your life is when you…

— Norman Spinrad

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum…

— Norman Spinrad

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

— Norman Spinrad

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of…

— Norman Spinrad