Michael John Harrison
M. John Harrison is an English author and literary critic. His work includes the Viriconium sequence of novels and short stories. (M John Harrison Quotes)
“After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory ‘exact’ relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence.”
M. John Harrison
“Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna, the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.”
M. John Harrison
“Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered.”
M. John Harrison
“Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over worldbuilding.”
M. John Harrison
“Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.”
M. John Harrison
“Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.”
M. John Harrison
“Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.”
M. John Harrison
“Perception of a state is not the state.”
M. John Harrison
“Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.”
M. John Harrison
“The worst thing in the world is to be inside yourself, you don’t even want to be rescued.”
M. John Harrison
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