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Of Mice and Men
Frankenstein

Jack Vance Quotes

I don’t read other science fiction. I don’t read any at all.

– Jack Vance

But I’ve sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

– 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

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

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

– 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

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

– Jack Vance

I haven’t sold to the movies. In other words, I haven’t gotten any enormous checks yet.

– Jack Vance

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

– 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

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

– 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

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

– 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

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 was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

– Jack Vance

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

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

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

– Jack Vance

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

– Jack Vance

I’d never been published when I was young.

– Jack Vance

I never worked in an office in my life.

– 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