Cities Quote by M. John Harrison

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

— M. John Harrison

Perception of a state is not the state.

— M. John Harrison

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

— M. John Harrison

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

— M. John Harrison

“As they moved from exhibit to exhibit like reluctant tourists in some artist's studio, Buffin sat on a stool with his limbs tense. He…

— M. John Harrison

“He ran toward the light. When he passed the corpse of his dead friend, he began to weep again. He picked up his sword.…

— M. John Harrison

“Some internal process held him rapt. He had begun, perhaps, to map the paths inside himself which led to the Past. This gave him…

— M. John Harrison

Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a…

— M. John Harrison

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

— M. John Harrison

“You can't cure people of their character,' she read. After this he had crossed something out then gone on, 'You can't even change yourself.…

— M. John Harrison

“When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds the knife;…

— M. John Harrison

A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid…

— M. John Harrison