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Norman Spinrad
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: September 15
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Trade Unionist
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Norman Richard Spinrad
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I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.
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Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.
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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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I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
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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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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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I was a precocious reader.
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Is anything accidental?
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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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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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There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.
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Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order
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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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All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.
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I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
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