Norman Spinrad Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Norman Spinrad:

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.
~Norman Spinrad


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#1b7aacb2

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#ed215f57

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#3110b44b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#e603573f

I never learned to read music.
~Norman Spinrad


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#cabc5179

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
~Norman Spinrad


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#cc25e946

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.
~Norman Spinrad


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#dc437047

I write in American slang.
~Norman Spinrad


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#798633e0

Is anything accidental?
~Norman Spinrad


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#adc9fbd2

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#82c32c2e

You can really do more than you think you can do.
~Norman Spinrad


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#ad71e2dc

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
~Norman Spinrad


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#ca1465ee

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.
~Norman Spinrad


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#c28a37b2

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.
~Norman Spinrad


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#4ec3a6d0

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#4974c7c1

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#06804e3e

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.
~Norman Spinrad


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#16f4ac2f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#cad4d25b

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
~Norman Spinrad


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#cb963b39

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#b40f0e31

I was a precocious reader.
~Norman Spinrad


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norman-spinrad-quotes/#e8a457e7

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