J. G. Ballard Quotes - QuotesSense.com

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 77 quotes by J. G. Ballard James Graham "J. G." Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Ballard came to be associated with the New Wave of science fiction early in his career with apocalyptic (or post-apocalyptic) novels such as The Drowned World (1962), The Burning World (1964), and The Crystal World (1966). In the late 1960s and early 1970s Ballard focused on an eclectic variety of short stories (or... Read full biography of J. G. Ballard → 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more.... → 0 In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom. 0 My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was... → 0 Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly... → 0 Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the... → 0 Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's... → 0 The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the... → 0 The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war.... → 0 What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their... → 0 Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. 0 I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or... → 0 The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after. 0 I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → Add a quote!


Background photo by Giuliana
	Contact Terms

77 quotes by J. G. Ballard