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Facts about Jack Vance SummaryJack Vance is a famous Author from USA, he/she is still alive and was born August 28, 1916.Zodiac etc.He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful. Our collection contains 30 quotes who is written / told by Jack.Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: George Will, Khaleda Zia, Anne Baxter, Clive James, Tom Metzger, Robert F. Kennedy, Joe Namath, Arthur C. Clarke, Willie Mays, Mike Ditka, Martin Yan, Didier Drogba, Øystein Stray Spetalen, Billy Zane, Arthur Lydiard, Robert Indiana, Whitfield Diffie, Phyllis Diller, Twyla Tharp, Jim Rohn Famous quotes by Jack Vance (30)   "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"
"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"
"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast"
"Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere"
"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 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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me"
"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"
"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"
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