A. E. van Vogt Quotes, Writing Quotes, Ideas Quotes

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

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Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

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Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

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I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

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I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.

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I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

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Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.

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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share. You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.

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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

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How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.

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