Quotes by Norman Spinrad

About Norman Spinrad:

Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic. His fiction has won the Prix Apollo and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo Award and multiple Nebula Awards.
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Stay a dreamer, and you'll never have your dream; get down in the nitty-gritty, and when you get your dream you see what horseshit it was in the first place.

Norman Spinrad

It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.

Norman Spinrad

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 this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

Norman Spinrad

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

Norman Spinrad

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

Norman Spinrad

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

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I was a precocious reader.

Norman Spinrad

I write in American slang.

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

Norman Spinrad

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

Norman Spinrad

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

Norman Spinrad

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

Norman Spinrad

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

Norman Spinrad

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.

Norman Spinrad

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

Norman Spinrad

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

Norman Spinrad

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

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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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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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When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

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Author Bio

  • NameNorman Spinrad
  • DescriptionAmerican science fiction writer and critic
  • AliasesNorman Richard Spinrad
  • BornSeptember 15, 1940
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist