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Jack L. Chalker

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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
I write historical novels that haven't happened yet,
BEN BOVA
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
JACK L. CHALKER
I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
JACK L. CHALKER
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER
I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
JACK L. CHALKER
I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the S...
JACK L. CHALKER
Decadence is wonderful.
JACK L. CHALKER
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
JACK L. CHALKER
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in the...
JACK L. CHALKER
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea...
JACK L. CHALKER
Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply.

"Don't curse h...
JACK L. CHALKER
...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationali...
JACK L. CHALKER
Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.
JACK L. CHALKER
And I write novels!" chimed in the other cop. "Though I haven't had any of them published yet, so I ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Life is a paradiddle...

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ROSS R. MASON
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how t...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short s...
JONATHAN COE
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, t...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.
GENE LUEN YANG
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
J. K. ROWLING
I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great...
ALAN FURST
Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li'l jerkface ...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON
I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L...
RACHEL KUSHNER
I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts,...
GARY JENNINGS
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
KANYE WEST
The other one is 'asked' after 'Jack', ... Jack asked.
GEORGE GUIDALL
The other one is 'asked' after 'Jack'. Jack asked.
GEORGE GUIDALL
I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the prin...
PATRICK MODIANO
These things are important to me, these things I write. I recognize and embrace the notion of collab...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels tha...
SOPHIE HANNAH
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
ANNE MCCAFFREY
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
WERNER HERZOG
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it...
CANDACE BUSHNELL
For me, having it all is being paid to write novels,
CANDACE BUSHNELL
Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET ELLIS
Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET EASTON ELLIS
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks thin...
ELBERT HUBBARD
I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I...
BRUCE STERLING
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to wr...
DAVID DUCHOVNY
I write about true-life type things.
KAREN KINGSBURY
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be pr...
SIMONE ELKELES
I played with Jack, and I tied Jack,
STEWART CINK
One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.
KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT
I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would ge...
STEVE BERRY
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novel...
A. N. WILSON
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instan...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not con...
SUE MONK KIDD
A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, ...
KERRY GREENWOOD
I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The ph...
JOHN IRVING
For all my longer works (i.e the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of depa...
GARTH NIX
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...
JANE AUSTEN
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD
I don't write romance novels, any more than Tom Clancy writes legal thrillers. Yes, I write about lo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't ...
STEFAN SAGMEISTER
I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I'v...
ANN BRASHARES
Feast of the Goat. It has been like a huge birthday present that this film based on one of my novels...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Jack loves to eat other frogs. That's his favorite.
JESSICA FRANKOVITCH
Novels are a safe way to talk about things.
JAY ASHER
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an ent...
BEN CASNOCHA
Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator...
LLOYD BENTSEN
I make things up and write them down.
NEIL GAIMAN
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or...
ANTHONY BURGESS
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Jack and I are very easy with each other, ... He'll run the operation. He and I will meet daily. I'l...
ROGER AILES
Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!
MANUTE BOL
It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally wri...
TIM PRATT
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
TAHEREH MAFI
I just write mechanical things.
BARRY ZITO
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a...
JACQUELINE LEO
I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I...
BRET EASTON ELLIS
He turned and looked at Henry. “Did you always know that you would write all these books?” “I ...
COLM TóIBíN
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really usef...
CORY DOCTOROW
When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's rea...
LAINI TAYLOR
I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and ...
EDAN LEPUCKI
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never hav...
JON SCIESZKA
I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for a...
JOHN LOGAN
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
JANE AUSTEN
Are you really a doctor?” I asked.
“Some people say that.”
“Why?”
“Becaus...
MICHAEL BRENT JONES
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ...
KATE ATKINSON
Patrick embodies all the wonderful things that Jack Donohue stood for,
DAVE JOHNSON
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write ab...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see thin...
DIANA GALBADON
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and...
JOHN M. FORD
I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. B...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI
I take a pad and pencil and write down unusual things I see,
CASSIDY
People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots o...
KAREN TRAVISS
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.
CHARLAINE HARRIS
There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.
KIEFER SUTHERLAND
I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insuranc...
ALAN FURST
I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
J. K. ROWLING
It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how ...
ALISON MOSSHART
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
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Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply.

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...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationali...
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Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.
JACK L. CHALKER
Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
JACK L. WARNER
I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.
JACK L. WARNER
I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
JACK L. WARNER
You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself.
JACK L. WARNER
Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals
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Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH
Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN
Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE
They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
L. SCHEFER
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
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The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the m...
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Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
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Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.
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Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification.
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Love conquers everything even karma.
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Life is full of endless possibilities.
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You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
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We get standing ovations wherever we go. If this didn't work, I would have quit long ago.
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It's no coincidence that every person have more than 1 soulmates.
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In the beginning, there was silence.
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CAMILLE L.
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L. ESTRANGE
We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry
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I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.
JACK WHITEHALL
With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
JACK NICHOLSON
The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today'...
JACK REED
The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
JACK PALANCE
Perfectionists are their own devils.
JACK KIRBY
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
JACK WELCH
I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
JACK CANFIELD
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensatio...
JACK WELCH
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma...
JACK KEROUAC
If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll snea...
JACK NICKLAUS
It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their att...
JACK ZIPES
Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
JACK ZIPES
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JACK ZIPES
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JACK ZIPES
'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their...
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Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, ...
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The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because ...
JACK ZIPES
Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfu...
JACK ZIPES
What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly th...
JACK ZIPES
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business h...
JACK WILD
I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long a...
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I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. ...
JACK WILD
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Stree...
JACK WILD
It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you ar...
JACK WILD
There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
JACK WILD
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly t...
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My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
JACK WHITTAKER
It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
JACK WHITTAKER
If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
JACK WHITTAKER
I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
JACK WHITTAKER
I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
JACK WHITTAKER
I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.
JACK WHITTAKER
Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist&...
JACK WHITEHALL
I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
JACK WHITEHALL
Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're no...
JACK WHITEHALL
My dad doesn't hug me enough!
JACK WHITEHALL
I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I ...
JACK WHITEHALL
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't suc...
JACK WHITEHALL
I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
JACK WHITEHALL
I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm...
JACK WHITEHALL
I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
JACK WHITEHALL
There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.
JACK WHITEHALL
I eat healthily, as it keeps my energy up.
JACK WHITEHALL
Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public scho...
JACK WHITEHALL
I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to ha...
JACK WHITEHALL
Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
JACK WHITEHALL
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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the sa...
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I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like ...
JACK WHITEHALL
If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
JACK WHITEHALL
I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is ...
JACK WHITEHALL
I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.
JACK WHITEHALL
When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
JACK WHITEHALL
I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in ...
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I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
JACK WHITEHALL
I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
JACK WHITEHALL
If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes ...
JACK WHITEHALL
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ...
JACK WHITE
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th...
JACK WHITE
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ...
JACK WHITE
I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri...
JACK WHITE
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ...
JACK WHITE
If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e...
JACK WHITE
We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s...
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But...
JACK WHITE
I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th...
JACK WHITE
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing...
JACK WHITE
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther...
JACK WHITE
Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ...
JACK WHITE
I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li...
JACK WHITE
I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong...
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With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h...
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I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ...
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I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro...
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&...
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I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to real...
JACK WHITE
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo...
JACK WELCH
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous...
JACK WELCH
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'...
JACK WELCH
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
JACK WELCH
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea...
JACK WELCH
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
JACK WELCH
There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and ...
JACK WELCH
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while y...
JACK WELCH
The team with the best players wins.
JACK WELCH
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confus...
JACK WELCH
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around ...
JACK WELCH
Change before you have to.
JACK WELCH
Be candid with everyone.
JACK WELCH
If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
JACK WARNER
I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.
JACK WARNER
'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even young...
JACK WAGNER
I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &...
JACK WAGNER
I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate...
JACK WAGNER
By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really mak...
JACK WAGNER
Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. On...
JACK WAGNER
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