Harlan Ellison Quotes

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Harlan Ellison

Profession : Writer

Birth : May 27, 1934

I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback.

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Five thousand Don Hecks are not worth one Neal Adams.

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I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.

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Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.

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To say more, is to say less.

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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

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Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.

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Nobody escapes age and gravity.

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Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

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I never know what I'm going to talk about until I get on stage. I never give the same lecture twice, which is why I'll have people follow me from place to place like Deadheads.

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I'm not nearly as significant as Ralph Nader or the local plumber.

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