Quotes by John Sladek - Page 1

I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.
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Finished
Recently
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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
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Laughed
Inventors
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SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.
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Advantage
Preconceptions
Depending
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Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
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Influence
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I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
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Be Careful
Careful
Novel
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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
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Conventional
Nuts
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Nor
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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
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Future
Expensive
Future Past Will
According
Exactly
Far
Some
Scientists
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I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
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Explanation
Science Fiction
Science World Way
Standard
Senseless
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Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
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Collections
Publish
Publishers
Reluctant
Short Story
Disguised
Novels
Paperback
Seem
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I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.
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Boost
Puzzles
People More Because
Connection
Detective
More People
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The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
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Alive
Illiterate
Meaningless
Privilege
Except
List
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Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.
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Poverty
Due
Edit
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Principle
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We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.
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Our Town
Phones
Pool
Public Library
Shy
Stories
Anyway
Public
Phone
Either
Hall
Hang
Smash
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This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.
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Junk
Junk Food
Waste
Mainly
Time Reading
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To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.
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Philip
Address
Questions
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For Example
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See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.
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Answers
Halt
Journalism
Journalistic
Non Fiction
Research
Background
Handling
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