Talk:Brian Aldiss

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• Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Its from "The Dark Light Years".

• Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

• Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

• I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

• 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.

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