Norman Spinrad Quotes

• You can really do more than you think you can do.

  Norman Spinrad

• When you’re in the States and you’re a writer and you’ve got money and you walk into a bank, you’re a bum with money.

  Norman Spinrad

• There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don’t have.

  Norman Spinrad

• The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

  Norman Spinrad

• The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

  Norman Spinrad

• Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

  Norman Spinrad

• It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

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• Is anything accidental?

  Norman Spinrad

• In America, if you don’t do a 100 million dollars, you’ve done nothing.

  Norman Spinrad

• If it’s not American, the French won’t go see it.

  Norman Spinrad

• I’ve always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

  Norman Spinrad

• I’m not gifted, but I’m not hopeless.

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• I write in American slang.

  Norman Spinrad

• I was a precocious reader.

  Norman Spinrad

• I never learned to read music.

  Norman Spinrad

• I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

  Norman Spinrad

• I get work because I’m primarily a novelist but I’ve become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

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• I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

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• English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it’s not by design. The United States dominates because it’s the biggest market.

  Norman Spinrad

• As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

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Norman Spinrad (21)

Birth:	15th September, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Critic, Writer

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• 1824 - William Morris Hunt
• 1938 - David Steel
• 1944 - Mick Ralphs
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• 1955 - Stephen Lynch

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• 1976 - Paul Strand
• 1980 - Lavinia Goodell
• 1931 - Knute Rockne
• 1998 - Tim Flock
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