Jack Vance Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
-
'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
-
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
-
Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
-
As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
-
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
-
I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
-
I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
-
Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
-
I have fabulous children.
-
But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
-
The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
-
The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
-
When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
-
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
-
It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
-
Life is a dead-end street.
-
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
-
There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage of our pioneers to settle the American west, which is why President Abraham Lincoln passed a Homestead Act giving a tract of land to anyone seeking a stake in our growing economy.
-
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
-
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
-
Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.
-
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.
