I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.
J. G. BallardMost writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
J. G. BallardMaybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?
J. G. BallardFiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.
J. G. BallardWhen the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
J. G. Ballard