The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think… — 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
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