Harlan Ellison Quotes
Top 63 wise famous quotes and sayings by Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.
I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.
We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story's end.
Style, like taste, is resistant to lucid definition; however, both, as living things should be, are subject to constant change.
The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.
If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.
If one is unable to buy Courvoisier, one should forcibly restrain oneself from serving strawberries Romanoff for dessert.
They are stories I wrote because my friends are gone, a lot of them, and if you can't be angry about it, how the hell much did you care to begin with?
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars ... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.
In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy ... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.
The solitary creator, dreaming his or her dream, unaided, seems to me to be the only artist we can trust.
In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.
When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.
I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected.
There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
I look upon those who assure me they had a 'happy childhood' as either pathological liars, or pariahs.
Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?
People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?
Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.