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All Quotes by author - Harlan Ellison
" All you have to do is look out around you at the good things you've done, and you'll know how good you are. "
Know
You
Look
" Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter. "
Go
Find
Invisible
" Five thousand Don Hecks are not worth one Neal Adams. "
Worth
Five
Thousand
" History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero. "
Will
Decide
Hero
" I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid. "
Talk
You
Me
" I don't remember anyone who could stand being in my company for more than five hours without running into the street. "
Stand
Street
Company
" I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can. "
Whatever
Science
Think
" I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning. "
Night
Up
Angry
" I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight. "
Hate
Being
Wrong
" I have no mouth, and I must scream. "
Scream
Mouth
Must
" I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that. "
Satisfied
Storyteller
Go
" I'm like a snake sleeping on a rock. I won't bother you unless you poke a stick at me. "
Snake
You
Me
" I'm not nearly as significant as Ralph Nader or the local plumber. "
Ralph Nader
Significant
Local
" I'm real tall when I stand on my charisma. "
Charisma
Stand
Real
" I never know what I'm going to talk about until I get on stage. I never give the same lecture twice, which is why I'll have people follow me from place to place like Deadheads. "
Know
Talk
Follow
" It was a superlative joy of my long life to have worked with Leonard Nimoy, who became my friend, and many others at 'Star Trek.' "
Star
Friend
Joy
" I would jump at the chance to work with the inordinately-talented J.J. Abrams on a new 'Star Trek' film. "
Chance
Film
Jump
" I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback. "
Kind
Write
Surreal
" Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. "
Nothing
Love
Misspelled
" Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future. "
Tomorrow
Science
Future
" Nobody escapes age and gravity. "
Nobody
Gravity
Age
" People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and for them, it's as if books did die out. "
Never
Saying
Will
" Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race. "
Science
Fantasy
Kind
" Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams. "
Dreams
Success
Existence
" There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.' "
Never
Bet
Know
" There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do. "
Things
Some
Money
" The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. "
Two
Universe
Common
" To say more, is to say less. "
Less
More
Say
" We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives. "
Responsibility
Us
Used
" When belief in a god dies, the god dies. "
God
Belief
Dies
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