Top 21 Quotes by Norman Spinrad

Is anything accidental?

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

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.

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 write in American slang.

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.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

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.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.