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I think it is hard in the Internet era for a monthly magazine to keep current with ideas and events. They might be in the position the daily newspaper was in in 1958 when television came in.


Jack Shafer

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JACK VANCE Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
JACK VANCE But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer s...
JACK VANCE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
JACK VANCE I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
JACK VANCE This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting...
JACK VANCE I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
JACK VANCE I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
JACK VANCE A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be c...
JACK VANCE But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
JACK VANCE Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew...
JACK VANCE It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell u...
JACK VANCE The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning...
JACK VANCE As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
JACK VANCE If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
JACK VALENTI Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, at...
JACK VALENTI Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched...
JACK VALENTI I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my presiden...
JACK VALENTI There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
JACK VALENTI The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films ...
JACK VALENTI The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
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