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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.


Jack L. Chalker

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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