"Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism……" — Brian Aldiss
"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 house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name."
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Brian Aldiss
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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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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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Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into…
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More Analogous Quotes
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Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a…
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It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the…
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The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me…
— Charles Darwin
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Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to…
— Lorne Rubenstein
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The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it…
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The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms,…
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The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
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Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the…
— Timothy Ball
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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of…
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