Vachss Books Quotes & Sayings

I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong. — Joan Rivers

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office. — Antonio Villaraigosa

There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head! — John Hancock

Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change - should take a closer look. — Andrew Vachss

I don't sign contracts for my books. — Andrew Vachss

I don't take advances for my books. — Andrew Vachss

In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly. — Robert Aickman

Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users. — Dan Farmer