187 Quotes by Jack Vance

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.