Harlan Ellison People Quotations

I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that.

I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected.

I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I read - and I don't need their criticism, what I need is my own - when I read it aloud, there is a flow, there is a poetry to it.

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?

They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

They minute people fall in love they become liars.