I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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 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
People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share
