Harlan Ellison is the Second Coming.
A short little cocky bastard is what Harlan Ellison is. And one of the greatest writers - not an author, no, he is not merely an author - I have ever read. And it's not just because of what he's written, because what he has written is phenomenal. It's what he says.
He's egotistical.
He's cocky.
He's so fucking sure of himself.
And I respect him immensely for that.
Read any of his essays and you'll see this cocky little bastard pounding away at typewriter keys before we had these fucking computers, with their goddamn Internet (bless you, my companion and source that I will use and make my bitch in years to come, I swear) and instant messaging and cell phones and where have the horse-drawn buggies went, I wonder? and Harlan Ellison was writing before my parents were born and he is a god. He is a titan. He's the James Dean of the type-writer; so fucking cool and he knows it.
Worship Harlan Ellison, my friends. Here was a man who said "this is what a Writer is: me."
What a fucking prick. I salute you, sir.
You and I.
You and me.
The both of us writers.
I'll talk to you.
You talk to me.
I'll understand you, and you'll understand me.
We're the blessed ones. We're the damned ones. We're the ones who can do one thing in this world but oh God how well we do it! We can write.
Talk to me.
- Harlan Ellison
He's egotistical.
He's cocky.
He's so fucking sure of himself.
And I respect him immensely for that.
Read any of his essays and you'll see this cocky little bastard pounding away at typewriter keys before we had these fucking computers, with their goddamn Internet (bless you, my companion and source that I will use and make my bitch in years to come, I swear) and instant messaging and cell phones and where have the horse-drawn buggies went, I wonder? and Harlan Ellison was writing before my parents were born and he is a god. He is a titan. He's the James Dean of the type-writer; so fucking cool and he knows it.
Worship Harlan Ellison, my friends. Here was a man who said "this is what a Writer is: me."
What a fucking prick. I salute you, sir.
You and I.
You and me.
The both of us writers.
I'll talk to you.
You talk to me.
I'll understand you, and you'll understand me.
We're the blessed ones. We're the damned ones. We're the ones who can do one thing in this world but oh God how well we do it! We can write.
Talk to me.
- Harlan Ellison