"Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver." — J. G. Ballard
"Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver."
More Cadaver Quotes
- Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life. — Edward Abbey
- The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The… — Andrea Dworkin
- To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel… — Fernando Pessoa
- ..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he… — Muriel Barbery
- It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left… — Sylvia Plath
- You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place. — Mary Roach
- Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same… — Mary Roach
- There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez