Brian Aldiss Quotes

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

Brian Aldiss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 18, 1925 - August 19, 2017

Topics

WorkCreativityEasyMatterBecome

It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.

Joe Morton

LoveDetailWorldYouCreatingJust

Nature is never finished.

Robert Smithson

NatureNeverFinished

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

Ang Lee

TimeMeAmericaLateFeelingsSide

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Tom Seaver

BaseballConsistencyEndWorryYou

Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.

Joseph Brodsky

ArtWordsFindingSpiritFlesh

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

Douglas Coupland

ChangeBrainYouOthersExistence

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

Christopher McQuarrie

WayWriteWatchChangedDirecting

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Confucius

LifeWorkExpectationsToolsPerfect

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

Brett Hull

PeopleMeDoneMiserableGoingMake

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it leads me to write it exactly how I'm seeing it.

Anthony Hamilton

MeSpeakThinkSeeingKindWay

There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.

Woody Harrelson

ExtraordinarySomethingJustAbout

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Philip Roth

LifeTimeShortYouAliveJust

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