"I was an omnivore at reading, so that……" — Jack Vance

"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."

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45 Quotes by Jack Vance

Jack Vance has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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.
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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