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Type: Author Quotes Category: American Author Quotes Date of Birth: August 28, 1916 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Jack Vance Related Authors: Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Gertrude Stein Henry Miller Helen Keller Edwin Louis Cole F. Scott Fitzgerald Susan Sontag |
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
Jack Vance As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time. Jack Vance But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it. Jack Vance But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection. Jack Vance But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction. Jack Vance But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. Jack Vance I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do. Jack Vance I don't have much vanity. I just know what I do. I just do because I'm capable of doing it and do it easily without any pretentiousness. Jack Vance I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. Jack Vance I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. Jack Vance I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. Jack Vance I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet. Jack Vance I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. Jack Vance I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough. Jack Vance I never worked in an office in my life. Jack Vance I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast. Jack Vance I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do. Jack Vance I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. Jack Vance I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things. Jack Vance I'd never been published when I was young. Jack Vance In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. Jack Vance It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance. Jack Vance It's just I wanted to get myself in a line of work where I didn't have a boss, where I didn't have to show up any place at any particular time. Jack Vance Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it. Jack Vance So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times. Jack Vance Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere. Jack Vance The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. Jack Vance Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful. Jack Vance There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was. Jack Vance These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything. Jack Vance This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late. Jack Vance Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write. Jack Vance |
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