Brian Aldiss Quotes

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• When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
• Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
• Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
• A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?
• Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life…
• Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
• The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or…
• Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a…
• It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.
• When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children,…
• Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
• The day of the android has dawned.
• Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.
• I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component…
• I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a…
• Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state…
• That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.
• It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our…
• There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
• The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the…

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