Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Brian Aldiss (English Novelist)

Brian Wilson Aldiss (1925–2017) was a British novelist, poet, short story writer, and critic. A prolific science-fiction author, his works display a vast range in style and approach.

Born in East Dereham, Norfolk, England, Aldiss was educated at Framlingham College and East Buckland College. He served with the Royal Signals of the British Army 1943–47 and worked in bookselling while writing his first novel, The Brightfount Diaries (1955.) He was the literary editor of the Oxford Mail 1958–69 and had considerable success with the autobiographical novels The Hand-Reared Boy (1970) and A Soldier Erect (1971.)

Aldiss is celebrated, as a writer of science fiction, such as Non-Stop (1958; USA: Starship,) The Saliva Tree (1966,) Frankenstein Unbound (1973,) Helliconia Spring (1982,) Helliconia Summer (1983,) Helliconia Winter (1985,) and Dracula Unbound (1991.) His more experimental works in the genre include Report on Probability A (1964) and Barefoot in the Head (1969.)

Aldiss also wrote graphic novels, edited many books of short stories, and produced histories of science fiction such as Billion Year Spree (1973) and Trillion Year Spree (1986.) Filmmaker Steven Spielberg adapted Aldiss’s short story Supertoys Last All Summer Long (1969) as the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001.)

Aldiss’s collections of poetry include At the Caligula Hotel (1995.) His literary memoir is Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith (1990;) his autobiography is The Twinkling of an Eye (1998.)

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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
Topics: Writing, Writers, Authors & Writing

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Brian Aldiss
Topics: Science Fiction

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

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
Brian Aldiss
Topics: Problems, Creativity

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

It’s at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don’t know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that’s why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! A bad night is not always a bad thing.
Brian Aldiss
Topics: Sleep

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
Topics: Inner-child, Children

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