187 Quotes by Jack Vance

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

I'd never been published when I was young.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.