Jeff Noon Professions : Novelist Born : 1957 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Jeff Noon Anything can become music if listened to long enough Jeff Noon music enough long A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that. Jeff Noon eye bird long Form is the host; content is the virus. Jeff Noon viruses host form I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do. Jeff Noon british hate writing Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. Jeff Noon sexy pleasure pain We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials. Jeff Noon form media mind Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
