James Graham "J. G." Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist and short story writer.
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. Use this quote
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. Use this quote
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. Use this quote
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. Use this quote
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. Use this quote
