Top 77 Quotes by J. G. Ballard

About J. G. Ballard

These are some quotes by British author J. G. Ballard Author, who was born on November 18, 1930.

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.

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

I admired anyone who could unsettle people.

I admired anyone who could unsettle people.

J. G. Ballard

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 extreme.

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 extreme.

J. G. Ballard

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

J. G. Ballard

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

J. G. Ballard

The Internet is an amazing development.

The Internet is an amazing development.

J. G. Ballard

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 deaths.

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 deaths.

J. G. Ballard

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

J. G. Ballard

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

J. G. Ballard

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

J. G. Ballard

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