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15 quotes by A. E. van Vogt

Alfred Elton van Vogt (/vænvoʊt/; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular, influential and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the "Golden Age" of the genre.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary... →

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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as... →

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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I... →

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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to... →

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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

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Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a... →

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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's... →

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