Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Jeff Noon

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British novelist Jeff Noon.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Jeff Noon

Jeff Noon is a British novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make use of word play and fantasy. Noon's speculative fiction books have ties to the works of writers such as Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges. Prior to his relocation in 2000 to Brighton, Noon set most of his stories in some version of his native city of Manchester.

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.
A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.
Anything can become music if listened to long enough — © Jeff Noon
Anything can become music if listened to long enough
Form is the host; content is the virus.
We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.
I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do.
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