Top 34 Van Vogt Quotes
#1. But reality really is a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate a mysterious chaotic quality in the universe which is not to be feared.
Philip K. Dick
#2. I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E.
van Vogt.
Philip K. Dick
#3. Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
A.E. Van Vogt
#4. 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.
A.E. Van Vogt
#5. It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
A.E. Van Vogt
#6. The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.
Julia to Charles
Evelyn Waugh
#7. 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.
A.E. Van Vogt
#8. 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.
A.E. Van Vogt
#9. The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
A.E. Van Vogt
#10. In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A.E. Van Vogt
#11. I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A.E. Van Vogt
#12. I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A.E. Van Vogt
#13. And the more technically developed a nation or race is, the more cruel, ruthless, predatory, and commercialized its systems tend to become ... all because we continue to think like animals and have not learned how to think consistently like human beings. A. K.
A.E. Van Vogt
#14. In L.A., I love being with my friends and being able to eat out and wear tank tops at night.
Bella Hadid
#15. 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.
A.E. Van Vogt
#16. Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
A.E. Van Vogt
#18. [He] had the hard eyes of the disciplinarian and the smile of a man who must be tactful and pleasant to many people.
A.E. Van Vogt
#19. He had a sudden awareness of what a wonderful organization the Weapon Makers were, with their shops existing In tens of thousands of cities and towns in the far-flung Isher Empire, an independent, outlawed, indestructible, altruistic, opposition to tyranny.
A.E. Van Vogt
#20. In a completely unreligious sense, he longed for spiritual surcease.
A.E. Van Vogt
#22. When applied to software, Sturgeon's Law is hopelessly optimistic.
Alberto Savinio
#23. Too often we seem to have the idea that submission to Scripture means that we first come to see it as reasonable and then submit to it, but submission means, in part, a willingness to bend the knee in faith to things that are not fully resolved in our mind.
James C. Wilhoit
#24. 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.
A.E. Van Vogt
#25. When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can't be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.
A.E. Van Vogt
#26. 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.
A.E. Van Vogt
#27. 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.
A.E. Van Vogt
#28. If I believe the same things today I did yesterday I've learned nothing.
A.E. Van Vogt
#29. I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
A.E. Van Vogt
#31. In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.
A.E. Van Vogt
#32. My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
A.E. Van Vogt
#33. All the world's a stage," is a metaphor comparing the whole world to a theater stage.
Stephen Davis
#34. People always have the kind of government they want. When they want change, they must change it.
A.E. Van Vogt
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