Brian Aldiss

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and read more

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That read more

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. read more

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's read more

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.