Norman Richard Spinradis 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... (wikipedia)
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.
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.
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
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.
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
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.
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.
If it's not American, the French won't go see it.
In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.
You can really do more than you think you can do.
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.
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.
I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.
I never learned to read music.
Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order
I write in American slang.
Is anything accidental?
The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'
I was a precocious reader.
Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.
The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.