Perception of a state is not the state.

- M. John Harrison

Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

- 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. W…

- M. John Harrison

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

- M. John Harrison

At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold a…

- M. John Harrison

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

- M. John Harrison

Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same tim…

- 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 de…

- M. John Harrison

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 n…

- M. John Harrison