I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
From Jack Vance
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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.
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.
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.
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
I'd never been published when I was young.
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.
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