"I'd never been published when I was young." — Jack Vance
"I'd never been published when I was young."
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Jack Vance
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45 Quotes by Jack Vance
Jack Vance has 45 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges…
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm…
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant…
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Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own…
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This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails…
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on…
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to…
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a…
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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