Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by Norman Spinrad

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Norman Spinrad.

Last updated on April 20, 2025.

Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic. His fiction has won the Prix Apollo and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo Award and multiple Nebula Awards.

American - Author | Born: September 15, 1940

Source: Wikipedia

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.

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

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

Norman Spinrad

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

Norman Spinrad

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

Norman Spinrad

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

Norman Spinrad

I write in American slang.

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.

Norman Spinrad

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

Norman Spinrad

Is anything accidental?

Norman Spinrad

I never learned to read music.

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

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

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

Norman Spinrad

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

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.

Norman Spinrad

I was a precocious reader.

Norman Spinrad

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

Norman Spinrad

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

Norman Spinrad

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

Norman Spinrad

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

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 that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.

Norman Spinrad

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

Norman Spinrad

The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.

Norman Spinrad

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

Norman Spinrad