A. E. van Vogt Quotes

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• 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 mission, it seemed natural for…
• Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look,…
• You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a…
• 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; and the following Christmas parents…
• It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than…
• 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.
• But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what…
• 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…
• In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did…
• I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

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