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Jack Vance
August 28, 1916 -
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

   

I never worked in an office in my life.

   

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

   

I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

   

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

   

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

   

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

   

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

   

I'd never been published when I was young.

   

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

   

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

   

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

   

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

   

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

   

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

   

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

   

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

   

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

   

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

   

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

   

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