"I don't read other science fiction. I don't…" — Jack Vance

"I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all."

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45 Quotes by Jack Vance

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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do…
The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges…
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm…
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant…
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own…
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails…
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on…
But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to…
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a…
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

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