Jack Vance Quotes - Page 3

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow.

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.

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

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

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.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

I never worked in an office in my life.

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

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

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.

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

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

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

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

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.