Quotes About Author

in 1971 New York City had more murders than American combat deaths in Vietnam during the same period.

I have therefore focused, in the main narrative, on only the best of the stories and on those eleven novels-Eye in the Sky (1957), Time Out of Joint (1959), Confessions of a Crap Artist (w. 1959, p. 1975), The Man in the High Castle (1962), Martian Time-Slip (1964), The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Ubik (1969), Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), A Scanner Darkly (1977), Valis (1981), and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)-that

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.

I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat's mat is a story.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram--that is, an oblong figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.

He hated computers having names like ZX75 and numbers of megabytes. He hated technology as it was in the 1990s.

most shameful rip-off of the Mac operating system yet, but the software made their PCs good-enough facsimiles of the Mac.

F. B. Meyer, came across my path. One was entitled The Secret of Guidance, and the other was Meet for the Master's Use.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back [to life] during a Republican administration.

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.

I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.