200 Quotes by 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.

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.'

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.

Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.

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.

I would jump at the chance to work with the inordinately-talented J.J. Abrams on a new 'Star Trek' film.

I don't remember anyone who could stand being in my company for more than five hours without running into the street.

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

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.