“Burroughs called his greatest novel Naked Lunch, by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. He's a writer of enormous richness whose books are a kind of attempt to blow up this cozy conspiracy, to allow us to see what's on the end of the fork . . . the truth.” KindBookEndsNovelBlowEnormousNakedLunchConspiracyRichnessForksCozyBurroughs Author:J. G. Ballard
“When 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.” NovelModernHonestyMovementPaintingNotionStartingEnormousPainterDistinguishedPlaywrightBourgeoisBaudelaire Author:J. G. Ballard
“I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.” ThinkingArtMatterNovelParticularInnovationFaultsInspiredExperimentsPainterVisualsVisual Art Author:J. G. Ballard
“Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?” SelfMatterHappensNextSocialNovelHellDemandNot InterestedPreservationStaticSelf PreservationBackdrop Author:J. G. Ballard
“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.” ThinkingWorldWritingStatesNovelModernStatementsInnocentContentmentPassagesPerpetualDrunkennessRiteGood HumorRite Of PassageScanningEdginess Author:J. G. Ballard
“The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.” SeemsTimeTermSituationNovelCenturyEventsElementsManagementLandscapeGrayTime ManagementTranslateCanvas20th CenturyCeremonyGeometryPostureAnatomyMona LisaGreatest Movie Author:J. G. Ballard
“Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.” WritingRealNovelFoolGeniusSellsReal Genius Author:J. G. Ballard
