Quotes by Ballard, J. G.

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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost >>

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandisi >>

Quotations about Fiction

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. >>

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. Ho >>

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. >>

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.

Ballard, J. G.