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J. G. Ballard Quotes

Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: November 15, 1930 - April 19, 2009

Topics

Truth Hope Lunch Writing Think End

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.

Photography Sometimes Oil Paint Kids

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Music People Die Play Go Want

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

Want Try Director Writer Instinctive

I have a statue of Superman. It's actually a big one... It's a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that's a little prized possession of mine.

Me Superman Little Statue Big Mine

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

Politics Feel Farm Will Florida

If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

Love Creativity Baseball People Game

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

Power Animal Mysterious Land Right

Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth's home run record? No.

Good Home Day Believe Chance Better

Theatre is very cutthroat, especially here in New York!

New York Theatre New Here Very York

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Soul Body Like Feeds Lives

I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

You Cause Rocking Which Supposed

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

Home People Me Back Go Spirit

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