Best quotes by J. G. Ballard on Reality
Checkout quotes by J. G. Ballard on Reality
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‟ People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
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‟ One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
- J. G. Ballard
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‟ Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
- J. G. Ballard
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‟ Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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‟ Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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‟ I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.
- J. G. Ballard