Quotes from Harlan Ellison

Es un error pensar que la ciencia ficción es un campo literario salvaje que se aparta de los caminos conocidos; puede ser un ingrediente más de cualquier tipo de ficción, del mismo modo que la ciencia y las tecnologías actuales forman parte integrante de nuestras vidas en todos sus aspectos.

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.

He once told me the difference, as he saw it, between an author and a writer. An author (he said) is what they put on your passport, because in Europe they think a writer is a newspaperman. An author is somebody who get his name on the spine of leather-bound volumes that are never read; a writer is someone who gets hemorrhoids from sitting on his ass all his life...writing.

The city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding gray clouds. A gray shroud that covered the corpses of buildings, stiff in brick-and-steel rigor mortis, pale in their eternity of sooty death.

Ashamed apologies and a gentle thank you. I do not digress.

There is only one real evil in the world: mediocrity.

We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story's end.

Es ist keine Sklaverei, es ist nur eine Welt, die nicht genug ist, weißt du, was ich meine?

David Gerrold never wrote an episode that Gene thought was shootable … then how do we account for something titled "The Trouble with Tribbles"?)

Who among us can deny that within every adult is caged a frightened child?

You do not have a right to an opinion. You have the right to an informed opinion. You do not have a right to be ignorant.

Style, like taste, is resistant to lucid definition; however, both, as living things should be, are subject to constant change.

The problem isn't what to say about the incredible Ursula Le Guin, it's where to start.

She thinks we were all killed when they made the Great Sweep, but I escaped in the mud.

The English are slightly more civilized than anyone else has yet been. Also England is a good country for introverts; they have a place in society for the introvert, which the United States has not.

He withdrew, murmuring to hell with you. And added, brightly, but then you're there, aren't you.

He withdrew, murmuring to hell with you. And added, brightly, but then you're there, aren't you.

Too many of our insanities are tolerated because they are harmless on an individual level—but multiply them by a millionfold and you have a nation that is culturally sick. These things stem from each individual's conception of himself—which he arbitrarily assumes to be the nature of the world as well. These conceptions are haphazardly picked up during youth—along with all of the other opinions, neuroses, hangups and etceteras common to the human animal.

The minute people fall in love, they become liars. You'd

Each of us moves through life shadowed by childhood memories. We never forget. We are bent and shaped and changed by those ancient fears and hatreds. They are the mortal dreads that in a million small ways block us off or drive us towards out destiny. (Shatterday, p198)

THE WAY YOU WALK IS THORNY, MY SON, THROUGH NO FAULT OF YOUR OWN.

I know that my true friend will appear after my death, and my sweetheart died before I was born.

Each of us moves through life shadowed by childhood memories. We never forget. We are bent and shaped and changed by those ancient fears and hatreds. They are the mortal dreads that in a million small ways block us off or drive us toward our destiny.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek." –French proverb