Quotes by A. E. van Vogt

A. E. van Vogt

Canadian-born science fiction author

Lived from: 1912 - 2000

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 26 april 1912 Died: 26 january 2000

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  • But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
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  • Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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  • I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
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  • I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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  • I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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  • In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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  • In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.
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  • It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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  • It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
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  • My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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  • Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
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  • You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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