Nicholas Fisk > Quotes

“They tell you that space is emptiness, nothingness - the void. They suggest that space, empty space, is something negative. I found out that it's not! Space lives, Scott. Nothingness, emptiness, has a life all its own.”
― Nicholas Fisk, Trillions

“...learn to be frightened. When you see some magic type person, a public person, hogging the media to talk about bringing back the birch, and hanging, it's time to get a little nervous.”
― Nicholas Fisk, You Remember Me!

“Yesterday’s children got what was good for them. Today’s children get what they want. One of the things they don’t want very much is a book. Literacy itself is becoming yet another commodity in short supply.

from "One Thumping Lie Only" in The Thorny Paradise (1975)”
― Nicholas Fisk

“We fought everything — each other, the Official Authority, the tea with too much sugar in it, the tea with too little sugar — everything. Perhaps now you'll begin to understand why I liked being with the twentieth-century kids. They were alive and kicking, not dead and docile.”
― Nicholas Fisk, Time Trap

“I like writing for its own sake, it gets you near doing something, something of your own. And I'm proud of my secret vice, my writing. Not many people can write at all - what would be the point these days, with the Viddy doing everything for you? - so just sitting down and writing makes me feel important. And reading Uncle Lipton's books has given me a taste for written words. He has all these books, hundreds of them. I don't think he reads them any more. He just talks about them. But to me, the books really mean something.”
― Nicholas Fisk, Time Trap