J. G. Ballard

I admired anyone who could unsettle people.

— J. G. Ballard

Sex times technology equals the future.

— J. G. Ballard

“Nothing is real until you put it in the VCR.”

— J. G. Ballard

The suburbs dream of violence.

— J. G. Ballard

The Internet is an amazing development.

— J. G. Ballard

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

— J. G. Ballard

If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.

— J. G. Ballard

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

— J. G. Ballard

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do…

— J. G. Ballard

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

— J. G. Ballard

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

— J. G. Ballard

Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.

— J. G. Ballard

I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

— J. G. Ballard

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

— J. G. Ballard

Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

— J. G. Ballard

I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

— J. G. Ballard

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people…

— J. G. Ballard

All through my career I've written 1,000 words a day - even if I've got a hangover. You've got to discipline yourself…

— J. G. Ballard

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

— J. G. Ballard

People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually. . . . Sex won't…

— J. G. Ballard

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

— J. G. Ballard

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and…

— J. G. Ballard

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons.…

— J. G. Ballard

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

— J. G. Ballard

The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric.…

— J. G. Ballard

For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at…

— J. G. Ballard

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened;…

— J. G. Ballard

There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the…

— J. G. Ballard

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something…

— J. G. Ballard

I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day…

— J. G. Ballard

Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense.…

— J. G. Ballard

My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The…

— J. G. Ballard

The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is…

— J. G. Ballard

In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that…

— J. G. Ballard

“A lifetime's experience urges me to utter a warning cry: do anything else, take someone's golden retriever for a walk, run away…

— J. G. Ballard

The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer…

— J. G. Ballard

Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,…

— J. G. Ballard

All you do is get on and start pedaling . . .

— J. G. Ballard

Fiction is a branch of neurology

— J. G. Ballard

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

— J. G. Ballard