Norman Spinrad Quotes

United States, Science Fiction Writer
September 15, 1940

Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic. His fiction has won the Prix Apollo and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo Award and multiple Nebula Awards.

Also known as Essayist, Critic, Novelist

Any attempt at willful ignorance would now be futile or worse; the only talisman against excessive knowledge that might have puissance would be more knowledge.

Norman Spinrad
Social morality requires a shared matrix of communal reality to which to relate thought and deed, and the illusion of an objective ethical esthetic requires at the very least the conviction that objective reality is more than a contradiction in terms.

Norman Spinrad

What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?

Norman Spinrad
- Seeing
- Open
- Obligation
Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?

Norman Spinrad
The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

Norman Spinrad
You can really do more than you think you can do.

Norman Spinrad
- Think
- More
- Can Do
The appreciation of the connoisseur is the highest pleasure of the artiste.

Norman Spinrad
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

Norman Spinrad
- Lives
- Painter
- Parallel

At that moment, I do now truly believe, the deed was done, in the sense that the decision of the will is the true essence of the act.

Norman Spinrad
- Decision
- Will
- Act
I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

Norman Spinrad
- Interest
- Heroes
- Eternal