Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellisonis an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1934
CityCleveland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Harlan Ellison quotes about
writing mean discovery
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.
acceptance good-friend no-friends
I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.
writing holy chores
Writing is a holy chore.
horse pain real
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald - and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass.
monsters teeth be-careful
be careful of monsters with teeth
mouths computer scream
I have no mouth. And I must scream.
girl women reading
I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with Shang dynasty glazes, but expecting to carry on a conversation with the average teen-aged young lady is akin to reading Voltaire to a cage filled with chimpanzees. I'm certain they would feel the same alienation for me. I can live with that knowledge.
men harlequin said
Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.
belief dies
When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
world imbeciles
The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.
dream tired responsibility
The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.
writing editors editing
Anyone who can not write should.
science people progress
People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?
mean writing wish
The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.