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Jack L. Chalker

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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in la...
JACK WAGNER
We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those ...
JACK WAGNER
My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from fou...
JACK WAGNER
My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mothe...
JACK WAGNER
My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me co...
JACK WAGNER
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
JACK WAGNER
Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going ...
JACK WAGNER
My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
JACK WAGNER
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
JACK VANCE
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
JACK VANCE
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
JACK VANCE
I never worked in an office in my life.
JACK VANCE
I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly f...
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...
JACK VANCE
I'd never been published when I was young.
JACK VANCE
In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
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...
JACK VANCE
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use...
JACK VANCE
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn...
JACK VANCE
There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha...
JACK VANCE
Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
JACK VANCE
But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer s...
JACK VANCE
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
JACK VANCE
I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
JACK VANCE
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting...
JACK VANCE
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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 c...
JACK VANCE
But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
JACK VANCE
Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew...
JACK VANCE