Aldiss, Brian (Brian Aldiss)

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
-- Brian Aldiss

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.
-- Brian Aldiss

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

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.
-- Brian Aldiss

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.
-- Brian Aldiss

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

That's the artist's role
-- Brian Aldiss

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
-- Brian Aldiss

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.
-- Brian Aldiss

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.
-- Brian Aldiss

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
-- Brian Aldiss

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, spreading riotous and strange in their instinct for growth.
-- Brian Aldiss

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.
-- Brian Aldiss

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.
-- Brian Aldiss

Digging deep in a Martian desert men discovered an enormous brain. It suddenly started to think at them
-- Brian Aldiss

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.

-- Brian Aldiss

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
-- Brian Aldiss

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

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.
-- Brian Aldiss

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.
-- Brian Aldiss

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

That's the artist's role
-- Brian Aldiss

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
-- Brian Aldiss

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.
-- Brian Aldiss

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.
-- Brian Aldiss