Ifs Quote by Brian Aldiss

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

— Brian Aldiss

Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

— Brian Aldiss

We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White…

— Brian Aldiss

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

— Brian Aldiss

Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our…

— Brian Aldiss

The day of the android has dawned.

— Brian Aldiss

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

— Brian Aldiss

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

— Brian Aldiss

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a…

— Brian Aldiss

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

— Brian Aldiss

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

— Brian Aldiss

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused…

— Brian Aldiss