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
Always, Been, Internal, External
In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.
- Norman Spinrad
Nothing, Million, Dollars, Million Dollars
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
Very, Read, Particularly, Science Fiction
Is anything accidental?
- Norman Spinrad
Anything, Accidental
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
- Norman Spinrad
Admit, Influenced, Must, Greatly
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
Deal, Given, Psychological, Chooses
I was a precocious reader.
- Norman Spinrad
Reader, Precocious
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
Think, Some, Means, Globalization
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
Work, Back, Forth, Novelist
When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.
- Norman Spinrad
Money, Bank, Writer, Bum
I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
- Norman Spinrad
Heroes, Interest, Eternal, Universal
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.
- Norman Spinrad
Things, Certain Things, Ordinary People
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
- Norman Spinrad
Pursue, Painter, Lives, Parallel
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
- Norman Spinrad
More, Conquered, Myth, Mexico
The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
- Norman Spinrad
World, More, Complex, Cultures
I write in American slang.
- Norman Spinrad
American, Write, I Write, Slang
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