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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 → ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. 0 Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. 0 An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use. 0 I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. 0 Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then? 0 To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its... → 0 Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on... → 0 I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much. 0 I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a... → 0 At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to... → 0 I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you... → 0 I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from... → 0 I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton... → 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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