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Norman Spinrad
American
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About the author
In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
#Nothing
#America
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
#Want
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
#People
The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
#World
#Technology
#Travel
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,
American
Author
#Writer
#Literary
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
#Manipulation
#Myth
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,
American
Author
#Money
#Writer
#states
Is anything accidental?
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
You can really do more than you think you can do.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
If it's not American, the French won't go see it.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
#American
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,
American
Author
#Technology
#Culture
#Consciousness
I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
I write in American slang.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
#American
#Slang
I was a precocious reader.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
I never learned to read music.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
#Music
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
#Being
#Faces
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,
American
Author
#Work
#English
I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
Norman Spinrad,
American
Author
#Interest
#Heroes
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,
American
Author
#World
#English
#states
#United
#Design
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,
American
Author
#Science
#History
#Reading
#Beginnings
#Pleasure
#Fiction
#Biography
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,
American
Author
#World
#Culture
#Wrong
#Age
#Globalization