John Sladek Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

John Sladek quotes and sayings page 2 (author). These are the last 7 out of 17 quotes we have.

“In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.”

“Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.”

“Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.”

“I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.”

“The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.”

“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.”

“To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.”

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