Extinction Quote by J. G. Ballard

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

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

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

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

The suburbs dream of violence.

— J. G. Ballard

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

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

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

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

— J. G. Ballard

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

— J. G. Ballard

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

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