Locus vient de publier dans son numéro d'Août une interview de Jack Vance. Des extraits sont ici. 

Jack Vance, tel qu'en lui-même... 

‘‘I don’t read any science fiction or fantasy anymore. It leaves me cold. I just read non-fiction and history and detective stories, once in a while a western story. I’ve not read science fiction or fantasy for recreation since I was a kid. I used to subscribe to Weird Tales. I remember running out to the mail box – I had to run a quarter mile to get to it, we lived out in the country – to grab Weird Tales, and taking it back. 

‘‘I wrote to make money, not for any other purpose. I just wrote the stuff because I was pretty good at it, and I wrote as fast as I could. I don’t glorify my writing at all. For some reason I have the knack. I can’t take any credit for it, any more than you can take credit for being a beautiful girl.” 

 
(photo by Francesca Myman)