Jack Vance

'Jack Vance' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Vance, Jack Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Criminal Code

  1931, role: actor , character name: Reporter

Famous quotes by Jack Vance:

"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."

"the reality is it costs a lot of money."

"I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to."

"I'd never been published when I was young."

"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."

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

"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."

"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."

"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."

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

"This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late."

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

"But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction."

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

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

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

"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

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

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