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
casually cost expected
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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.
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.
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.