Norman Spinrad Quotes

• Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

  Norman Spinrad

  Order, Enemy, Chaos

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• The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

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  Want, Life Is, Saddest

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• The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.

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  Honor, Badges

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• Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

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  Mexico, Manipulation, Myth

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• I was a precocious reader.

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  Reader, Precocious

  Author Q&A, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• 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 that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.

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  Mean, Thinking, Age

  "A Conversation with Norman Spinrad". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

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  Fiction, Definitions, Make Sense

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• I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

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  Hopeless, Gifted

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• I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

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  Relationship, Technology, Political

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• You can really do more than you think you can do.

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  Thinking, Can Do

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• Is anything accidental?

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• If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

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  Ifs

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• If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

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  Want, Painter, Parallel Lives

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• 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.

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  Children, Reading, Science

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• I never learned to read music.

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• I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

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  Hero, Faces, Thousand

  "A Conversation with Norman Spinrad, Author of THE DRUID KING". Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. August 10, 2004.

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• I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

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  Believe, Hero, Firefighter

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• Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

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  Fiction, Science Fiction

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• 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.

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  Psychological, Given, Novel

  Author Q&A, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

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  Lying, Writing, Would Be

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• There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

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  People, Ordinary, Ordinary People

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• 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.

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  Design, United States, Pieces

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• In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

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  America, Dollars, Done

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• 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.

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  Doctors, Novelists, Scripts

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• I write in American slang.

  Norman Spinrad

  Writing, Slang

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