"This is mainly because I spend a lot……" — John Thomas Sladek
"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 reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read."
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17 Quotes by John Thomas Sladek
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I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense…
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R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought.…
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Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
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Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the…
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I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read…
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See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling…
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The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It…
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We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones,…
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I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
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I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
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I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.
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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
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