Harlan Ellison Quotes

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look lik...

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can...

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

To see an almost certain horrible death--you know how crowds all sit at the edge of their seats, /pr...

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than l...

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpa...

When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal b...

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some pe...

Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes l...

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than...

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

Jelly beans! Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and rasp...

And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes goes goes goes goes tick tock tick to...

Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that n...

Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by...

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a da...

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing…

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that ...

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they...