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Jeff Noon Quotes

Anything can become music if listened to long enough

Anything can become music if listened to long enough

Jeff Noon
Music, Long, Enough

Form is the host; content is the virus.

Jeff Noon
Viruses, Host, Form
"Portrait of the Author as a Vurtual Man: Jeff Noon talks to London Calling’s Tom Hunter". London Calling Interview, londoncalling.com. August 11, 2012.

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.

Jeff Noon
Eye, Long, Bird

We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.

Jeff Noon
Media, Mind, Form

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.

Jeff Noon
Sexy, Pain, Pleasure
Jeff Noon (2012). “Vurt”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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.

Jeff Noon
Hate, Writing, British

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