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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Burroughs called his greatest novel Naked Lunch, by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. He's… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will helpthe inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
