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
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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.
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I wrote what interested me; and my method of working out my story through the dream process probably underlay the wheels within wheels aspect.
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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.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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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.
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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.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.