56 Quotes by Brian Aldiss

"That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar."

"Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode."

"To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important."

"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay."

"There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder."

"It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter."