Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 15, 1930 Death: April 19, 2009
I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the mode….
Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of….
Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War..
Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason..
One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one ….
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it..
If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream..
Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mea….
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's….
Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy..
I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror..
Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certai….
I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the other the inner world of the mind meet and….
In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner worl….
I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds..
For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at least channell….
Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic..