J. G. Ballard Quotes

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

So many people want to have this typical look and this typical everything and it's all the same everywhere.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

At a mall you can almost get frostbite, it's so boring. Looking different is worth a lot.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

We've all forgotten how to be original.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

Perfection is really boring!

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

Americans are either wild or dull.

There are two ways to make a person feel homeless—one is to destroy his home and the other is to make his home look and feel like everybody else’s home.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

I don't know what I want, but I do know that I don't want the usual stuff, the cliched stuff is just too mind-numbing. They sell, I know, but it makes me sad to know that.

You don't want to look the same every day of your life. It's boring as hell.

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.