"Every moment of a science fiction story must……" — M. John Harrison
"Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building."
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14 Quotes by M. John Harrison
M. John Harrison has 14 quotes on this site.
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After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you…
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Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then…
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Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the…
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Perception of a state is not the state.
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Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised…
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At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap,…
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I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for…
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SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy…
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Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
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Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
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Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have…
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Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go…
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