"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

Beginning, Ending, Pretty, Want

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"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

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"In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season."

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"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."

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"Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford."

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"So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning."

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Explore more quotes by Jack Vance

"I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all."

Science

"Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful."

Imagination

"I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things."

Writing

"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."

Thought

"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."

Books

"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."

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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."

Reading

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