Norman Spinrad
Norman Spinrad
Norman Richard Spinradis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 September 1940
CountryUnited States of America
american-author bum money states
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.
mean thinking age
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.
children reading science
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.
lying biographies would-be
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.
design pieces world
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.
doctors scripts novelists
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.
hopeless gifted
I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.
I never learned to read music.
order enemy chaos
Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order
writing slang
I write in American slang.
want painter parallel-lives
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
ifs
If it's not American, the French won't go see it.
america done dollars
In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.
Is anything accidental?