Quotes from 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I was a precocious reader.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

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.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

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

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

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.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

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.

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

Is anything accidental?

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.

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

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

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.

The saddest day of your life isn't when you decide to sell out. The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out and nobody wants to buy.