I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards & his issue--among others--with the judging system, 1981)
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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. JACK VALENTI Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it. JACK VALENTI No one today knows what is indecent. JACK VALENTI There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves. JACK STRAW It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u... JACK STRAW In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L... JACK STEINBERGER In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil... JACK STEINBERGER I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors. JACK STEINBERGER I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. JACK STEINBERGER I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generatio... JACK STEINBERGER I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depressio... JACK STEINBERGER In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We wer... JACK STEINBERGER I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to... JACK STEINBERGER I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose. JACK STEINBERGER It's great that people are interested in Mars. JACK SCHMITT But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base ... JACK SCHMITT It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Cany... JACK SCHMITT My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War. JACK SCALIA There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know. JACK SCALIA I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that ser... JACK SCALIA