"There are two kinds of writer: those that……" — Brian Aldiss
"There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder."
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24 Quotes by Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss has 24 quotes on this site.
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
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Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
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Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
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A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers…
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Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able…
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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
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The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution,…
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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and…
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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats…
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That…
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Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
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The day of the android has dawned.
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More Kind Quotes
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is…
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge…
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
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When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he…
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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