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" I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. "
Jack Vance
Since
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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. "
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" I'd never been published when I was young. "
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Young
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" 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. "
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Stop
Want
" I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do. "
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Time
" Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere. "
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Somewhere
Book
" 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. "
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Money
Need
" In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. "
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Job
You
Watching
" 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. "
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Tell
Influence
Me
" I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast. "
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Fast
Go
Fly
" I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. "
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Read
Reading
Ever
" 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. "
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Write
Done
Find
" I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet. "
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Checks
Words
Sold
" 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. "
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Immersed
Story
Someone
" 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. "
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Beginning
Writing
New Beginning
" 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. "
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Begin
First
Half
" 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. "
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Wonderful
Weird
Wild
" 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. "
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Office
You
Supervision