A. E. van Vogt
A. E. van Vogt
Alfred Elton van Vogtwas a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular, influential, and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the Golden Age of the genre...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 April 1912
CountryCanada
dream interested method process wheels within wrote
I wrote what interested me; and my method of working out my story through the dream process probably underlay the wheels within wheels aspect.
fits somewhere stay writer
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.
casually cost expected
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
age crossed line living moment sold true
As a craftsman, I made my living at writing from the moment I crossed the line at age 20, and sold my first story to True Story Magazine.
carrying credit detective endless full mother number takes
My mother takes full credit for my being a writer. Apparently, when she was carrying me, she said, she read an endless number of detective stories.
writing cost pay
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
writing years ideas
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.
truth reader
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
self stories awareness
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
writing printed-word people
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.
christmas children book
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.
study behavior theory
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
break-up breakup interesting
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.