Harlan Ellison Quotes

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.

A thought is an idea in transit.

I have got a good imagination.

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my mind. Then I try to get the scene down on paper as closely as I can. That's the one thing that readers don't see - what you have in your mind. The reader can only see what you get on the page.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'

Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

Poverty is just a state of mind.

In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it.

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

I really try to think cinematically, because that's how people read. They create a theater in their minds.

One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.