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If I were to use outdoor for Coke, I would do the exact opposite. I would run 19th century billboards. That would be startling.


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JACK VANCE So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use...
JACK VANCE Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn...
JACK VANCE There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha...
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...
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