Jeff Noon Quotes

• Anything can become music if listened to long enough

  Jeff Noon

  Music, Long, Enough

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• Form is the host; content is the virus.

  Jeff Noon

  Viruses, Host, Form

  "Portrait of the Author as a Vurtual Man: Jeff Noon talks to London Calling’s Tom Hunter". London Calling Interview, londoncalling.com. August 11, 2012.

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• A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.

  Jeff Noon

  Eye, Long, Bird

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• We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.

  Jeff Noon

  Media, Mind, Form

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• Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.

  Jeff Noon

  Sexy, Pain, Pleasure

  Jeff Noon (2012). “Vurt”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do.

  Jeff Noon

  Hate, Writing, British

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