Jack Vance
Jack Vance
John Holbrook "Jack" Vancewas an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote 9 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and one each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Some editions of his published works give his year of birth as 1920...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1916
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.
Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.
I become drunk as circumstances dictate.
Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.
Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.
The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.
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.