I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected. Harlan Ellison More Quotes by Harlan Ellison More Quotes From Harlan Ellison The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired. Harlan Ellison tired responsibility dream Y is for YGGDRASIL. The legendary Nordic ash tree with its three roots extending into the lands of mortals, giants, and Niflheim, the land of mist, grows in Wisconsin. Legend has it that when the tree falls, the universe will fall. Next Wednesday, the State Highway Commission comes through that empty pasture with a freeway. Harlan Ellison land roots fall When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing are all you have. It often looks like egomania. I assure you it's the bold coverup of the absolutely terrified. Harlan Ellison deep-breathing typewriters self-esteem Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. Harlan Ellison microphones argument looks Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and they turn it to their purposes and make a living out of it, then they become not "that person," but they become "that writer" or "that doctor" or "that supervisor." Harlan Ellison doctors flying writing What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work. Harlan Ellison soul writing trying Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied. Harlan Ellison harlequin said men I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well. Harlan Ellison writing jobs years In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions. Harlan Ellison ugly opinion voice If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his. Harlan Ellison messengers may way Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better. Harlan Ellison waking excellence perfection I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with Shang dynasty glazes, but expecting to carry on a conversation with the average teen-aged young lady is akin to reading Voltaire to a cage filled with chimpanzees. I'm certain they would feel the same alienation for me. I can live with that knowledge. Harlan Ellison women girl reading Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. Harlan Ellison funny-love love sex I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first. Harlan Ellison mouths enemy firsts When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three. Harlan Ellison passion three skills I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw. Harlan Ellison sound mistake way Anyone who can not write should. Harlan Ellison editors editing writing I have no mouth. And I must scream. Harlan Ellison scream computer mouths Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore. Harlan Ellison commodity coward writing To say more, is to say less. Harlan Ellison
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