J. G. Ballard Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

  J. G. Ballard

  Real, Writing, Genius

• Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

  J. G. Ballard

  Writing, Reality, Doe

  "Inner Landscape". Interview with Robert Lightfoot and David Pendleton, www.jgballard.ca. October 30, 1970.

• Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

  J. G. Ballard

  Writing, Thinking, Frustrated

• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

  J. G. Ballard

  Writing, Thinking, Contentment

• If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Writing, People

• But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

  J. G. Ballard

  Writing, Successful, Soul

• 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 the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

  J. G. Ballard

  Writing, World, Want

  "Strange fiction". Interview With James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2008.

• It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

  J. G. Ballard

  Powerful, Lying, Writing

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