Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Jack L. Chalker

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Last updated on November 20, 2024.

Jack Laurence Chalker was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring during 1978 to write full-time. He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.

American - Author | December 17, 1944 - February 11, 2005

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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

Jack L. Chalker

I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.

Jack L. Chalker

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

Jack L. Chalker

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

Jack L. Chalker

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

Jack L. Chalker

Decadence is wonderful.

Jack L. Chalker

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

Jack L. Chalker

I write novels and other things.

Jack L. Chalker

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

Jack L. Chalker

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

Jack L. Chalker

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

Jack L. Chalker

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

Jack L. Chalker

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

Jack L. Chalker

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

Jack L. Chalker