Quotes by : Harlan Ellison

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like....

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll....

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.

Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not....

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love,....

To see an almost certain horrible death--you know how crowds all sit at the edge of their seats, /praying/....

Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late.....

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous....