Philip K. Dick on Books
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Philip K. Dick, catalogued under books, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Philip K. Dick and filed under "books" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Philip K. Dick, entry #218729: "The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down."
Attributed to Philip K. Dick, entry #234279: "It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense."
7 Quotes by Philip K. Dick on Books
"The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down."
"It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense."
"Dark Roasted Blend: Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Experience: Philip K. Dick"
"The book business is hidebound."
"One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do … the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced."
"My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it."
"I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E. van Vogt. There was in van Vogt's writing a mysterious quality, and this was especially true in The World of Null A. All the parts of that book did not add up; all the ingredients did not make a coherency. Now some people are put off by that. They think that's sloppy and wrong, but the thing that fascinated me so much was that this resembled reality more than anybody else's writing inside or outside science fiction. … reality really is a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate a mysterious chaotic quality in the universe which is not to be feared."