Frases de Harlan Ellison
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Harlan Jay Ellison , nacido en Cleveland , es un prolífico y destacado escritor de novelas e historias cortas especializado en literatura fantástica, de terror y, sobre todo, de ciencia ficción.

Sus trabajos publicados incluyen más de 1.700 cuentos, novelas, guiones, y ensayos sobre la literatura, el cine, la televisión y los medios impresos. Fue editor y antólogo, destacando en esta área la recopilación de la antología Visiones peligrosas, paradigmática del movimiento conocido como New Wave . Ellison ha ganado numerosos premios, entre ellos varios Hugos, Nébula y Edgar.

✵ 27. mayo 1934 – 28. junio 2018
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Harlan Ellison: Frases en inglés

“He had writer's block once. It was the worst ten minutes of his life.”

About Isaac Asimov – quoted in Page Fright : Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers (2009) by Harry Bruce
Jerry Pournelle, in "Chaos Manor: Is there an Upgrade in your future?" in Dr. Dobb's Journal : Software Tools For The Professional Programmer (2005), Vol. 30, Issues 374-379, p. 9
Variante: Most writers hate to write, and will grasp any excuse to do something else … There are exceptions. Isaac Asimov actually was never happier than sitting at a keyboard — first, his old typewriter; then, the TRS-80; and later, a more conventional PC. But then, Isaac was unusual, and his experience with writer's block was the worst 10 minutes of his life.

“Heaven began to run at the edges.”

"Hitler Painted Roses" (1977)

“I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.”

1990 interview, as quoted in The New York Times (28 June 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/28/us/ap-us-obit-harlan-ellison.html

“And my mother said—and I remember this as if it were yesterday—my mother with a washcloth in her hand and me standing at the sink, she said, "You must have said something to get them angry."”

And it was an icicle just jammed into my chest. That my own mother—and with cause! It was not as if I was the greatest kid in the world. I was a troublemaker! I was a brat! I was a big-mouth pain in the ass! But that my own mother would not understand—at that moment I had what, now at age seventy-two I understand, was an enormous epiphany, which is: I really cannot support it, I cannot bear it, when people laugh at me.
Fuente: Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1018887/ (documentary), at about 28:10.
Contexto: About being beaten up by bullies as a child.

“You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.”

Interview with Gary K. Wolfe (28 July 1987), quoted in Harlan Ellison : The Edge of Forever (2002), by Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe
Borrowing a common scientific joke expressing the laws of thermodynamics.

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