Norman Spinrad famous quotes

03-18-2025

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Science Fiction
I never learned to read music.
-- Norman Spinrad
I was a precocious reader.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Reader
I write in American slang.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Writing #Slang
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Want #Painter #Parallel Lives
If it's not American, the French won't go see it.
-- Norman Spinrad
In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.
-- Norman Spinrad

#America #Done #Dollars
Is anything accidental?
-- Norman Spinrad
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.
-- Norman Spinrad

#People #Ordinary #Ordinary People
You can really do more than you think you can do.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Thinking
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Psychological #Given #Novel
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Hero #Faces #Thousand
I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Doctors #Scripts #Novelists
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Design #Pieces #World
The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Technology #World #Culture
The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Want #Life Is
I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Hero #Believe #I Believe
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'
-- Norman Spinrad

#Definitions #Fiction #Science Fiction
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Manipulation #Mexico #Myth
Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order
-- Norman Spinrad

#Order #Enemy #Chaos
I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Hopeless #Gifted
It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Mean #Thinking #Age
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Children #Reading #Science
All fiction is lies â€“ if it werenâ€™t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Lying #Biographies #Would Be
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Relationship #Technology #Political

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