Norman Spinrad Quotes

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• The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
• The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.
• I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
• There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'
• Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
• Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order
• I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.
• It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to…
• As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly…
• All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.
• English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the…
• I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.
• I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
• I never learned to read music.
• I was a precocious reader.
• I write in American slang.
• If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
• If it's not American, the French won't go see it.
• In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.
• Is anything accidental?

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