Jack Vance Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“I'd never been published when I was young.”

“Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.”

“Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”