John Thomas Sladek Quotes

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• I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
• This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time…
• R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that…
• Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
• Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we…
• I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles…
• See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic…
• The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except…
• We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have…
• I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
• I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
• I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.
• In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
• Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
• People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
• SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.
• The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

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