Top 36 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. Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
Rachel Sklar
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Life Is Too Short--So Kiss Slowly,
Laugh Insanely, Love Truly,
And Live With Passion.
Andy Vogt
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
A.E. Van Vogt
#9. In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A.E. Van Vogt
#10. I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A.E. Van Vogt
#11. I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A.E. Van Vogt
#12. Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.
William 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. program." "If I'm wrong, I'll expel myself." I hate you. "Thank you. Thank you very
Jill Cox Vogt
#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. 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
#20. The brain secretes thought as the stomach secretes gastric juice, the liver bile, and the kidneys urine.
Karl Vogt
#21. People always have the kind of government they want. When they want change, they must change it.
A.E. Van Vogt
#22. We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
William Vogt
#23. My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
A.E. Van Vogt
#24. 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
#26. I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
A.E. Van Vogt
#27. If I believe the same things today I did yesterday I've learned nothing.
A.E. Van Vogt
#28. 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
#29. Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
A.E. Van Vogt
#30. Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately it is very unfashionable to talk with them.
Brandon Vogt
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. In a completely unreligious sense, he longed for spiritual surcease.
A.E. Van Vogt
#35. 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
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