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Jack Vance

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


— Jack Vance


#checks #enormous #gotten #haven #i

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.


— Jack Vance


#i #just #like #seemed #sell

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


— Jack Vance


#i #lots #made #money #never

I never worked in an office in my life.


— Jack Vance


#life #my life #never #office #worked

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.


— Jack Vance


#fast #fly #go #going #i

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


— Jack Vance


#everybody #i #time #watches #you

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


— Jack Vance


#ever #everything #i #read #reading

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.


— Jack Vance


#completely #environment #immersed #reader #someone

I'd never been published when I was young.


— Jack Vance


#i #never #published #young

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


— Jack Vance


#every #fact #get #in fact #job






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Did you know about Jack Vance?

With the death of his grandfather the Vance's family fortune nosedived and Vance was forced to leave junior college and work to support himself assisting his mother when able. After working on a degaussing crew for a period he left about a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor. " The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made Vance its 14th Grand Master in 1997 and the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001.

He has also written 11 mystery novels as John Holbrook Vance and three as Ellery Queen and has once each used pseudonyms Alan Wade Peter Held John van See and Jay Kavanse. Most of his work has been publiJack Vanced under the name Jack Vance. A 2009 profile in the New York Times Magazine described Vance as "one of American literature’s most distinctive and undervalued voices.

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