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

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

— Jack Vance

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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

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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

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

— Jack Vance

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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

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

— Jack Vance

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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

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

— Jack Vance

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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. ↗

— Jack Vance

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