Quotes by Brian Aldiss

“Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.”

“Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.”

“I cant help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but its psychological truth.”

“Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.”

“I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.”

“It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.”

“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.”

“A.I.”

“Keep violence in the mind where it belongs”

“Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.”

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.