Top 6 L. Sprague de Camp Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man’s good.”

— L. Sprague de Camp

2. “Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.”

— L. Sprague de Camp

3. “There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.”

— L. Sprague de Camp

4. “It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.”

— L. Sprague de Camp

5. “In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.”

— L. Sprague de Camp

6. “The spook begins to interfere with the writer’s normal mental processes. Sometimes the ghost, by appealing to the writer’s sympathies, tempts the writer to imitate him in one way or another. Catherine says that, when I was working on Lovecraft, I even began to dress in the style affected by HPL, like that of a well-bred undertaker.”

— L. Sprague de Camp

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