"I figure that that has a ten year……" — A. E. van Vogt
"I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things."
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A. E. van Vogt
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17 Quotes by A. E. van Vogt
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of…
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another…
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book;…
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break…
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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
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