A. E. van Vogt
A. E. van Vogt
Alfred Elton van Vogtwas a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular, influential, and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the Golden Age of the genre...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 April 1912
CountryCanada
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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My mother takes full credit for my being a writer. Apparently, when she was carrying me, she said, she read an endless number of detective stories.
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.