"It came about as follows: over the years……" — A. E. van Vogt
"It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again."
—
A. E. van Vogt
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
17 Quotes by A. E. van Vogt
A. E. van Vogt has 17 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
-
The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its…
-
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of…
-
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another…
-
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
-
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book;…
-
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break…
-
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
-
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
-
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
-
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
-
Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
See all 17 quotes by A. E. van Vogt »
More Beginning Quotes
This quote is filed under Beginning Quotes,
one of 4,628 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
-
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
-
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
-
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
-
When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
-
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
— Margaret Atwood
-
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
— Kevyn Aucoin
-
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
— Saint Augustine
-
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
See all 4,628 Beginning Quotes »