Quotes by : J. G. Ballard

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic....

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl....

In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua....

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to....

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything....

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain,....

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement....

There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that....

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world....