20th century 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