Best 21 quotes of Norman Spinrad on MyQuotes

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.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I was a precocious reader.

I write in American slang.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.

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

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

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.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.

[P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidable choice that had faced every power-junkie since time began: to have the sheer gall to fake being something greater than a man, or cop-out on the millions who had poured a part of themselves into your image and be something less.

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality