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Top 30 Norman Spinrad Quotes (2025 Update)

Norman Spinrad Quote: “In America, if you don’t do a 100 million dollars, you’ve done nothing.”

1. “In America, if you don’t do a 100 million dollars, you’ve done nothing.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “You can really do more than you think you can do.”

2. “You can really do more than you think you can do.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces.”

3. “I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: ‘Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.’”

4. “There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: ‘Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.’”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.”

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

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.”

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

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order.”

7. “Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “Kiss me, and you’ll live forever. You’ll be a frog, but you’ll live forever.”

8. “Kiss me, and you’ll live forever. You’ll be a frog, but you’ll live forever.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Norman Spinrad Quote: “I’m not gifted, but I’m not hopeless.”

10. “I’m not gifted, but I’m not hopeless.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don’t have.”

11. “There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don’t have.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “I’ve always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.”

12. “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

Norman Spinrad Quote: “Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.”

13. “Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.”

14. “Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “I never learned to read music.”

15. “I never learned to read music.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “I was a precocious reader.”

16. “I was a precocious reader.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.”

17. “At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Norman Spinrad Quote: “America was becoming the world’s best-defended Third World country, and the best and the brightest were collaborating in the process.”

19. “America was becoming the world’s best-defended Third World country, and the best and the brightest were collaborating in the process.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “Jerry’s fortune cookie said: “Tension, apprehension and dissension have begun.”

20. “Jerry’s fortune cookie said: “Tension, apprehension and dissension have begun.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “I write in American slang.”

21. “I write in American slang.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Norman Spinrad Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Norman Spinrad Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Norman Spinrad Quote: “I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.”

25. “I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “Is anything accidental?”

26. “Is anything accidental?”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.”

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

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality.”

28. “Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality.”

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.”

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

— Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad Quote: “If it’s not American, the French won’t go see it.”

30. “If it’s not American, the French won’t go see it.”

— Norman Spinrad

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