Science fiction Quotes · Page 21

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in…

— Liu Cixin

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

— Frederick Busch

“Beef had hit $300 a kilo. Not that he could recall the last time he’d tasted real beef.”

— Barry Kirwan

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

— Neil Gaiman

“Life is a negotiation. we all want. we all give to get what we want.”

— Mordin Solus

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

— Brian Aldiss

“And suddenly, the earth was an alien place, and she a voyager without sure destination.”

— Rodgers Clemens

“That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.”

— Michael Monroe

My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes…

— Michael Monroe

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we…

— Alan Alda

“The science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov reportedly once said, “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new…

— Frans de Waal

I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s…

— Ken Liu

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because…

— Katee Sackhoff

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It…

— Salman Rushdie

I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set…

— Jeremy Bulloch

Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older…

— Pierre Trudeau

“Mind you, I do recall that Salman Rushdie actually came second in a science fiction writing competition organized by Gollancz in the…

— Terry Pratchett

I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call…

— Nalo Hopkinson

“[P]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still…

— Tracy Hickman

“Have you ever played Maximum Happy Imagination?" "Sounds like a Japanese game show." Kat straightens her shoulders. "Okay, we're going to play.…

— Robin Sloan

“His life was now the life of a collector, and that gave it meaning. Evening after evening he would count and arrange…

— Karel Čapek

“There are cultures on Earth that are more alien than some of the aliens in SF. More extensive quote: "the theme of…

— Catherine Asaro

“Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom…

— Margaret Atwood

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

— Jack McDevitt

“Now, this was a combination that she wouldn’t dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.”

— B. Barmanbek

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

— Ann-Margret

“You’re insane.” “It’ll work.” “Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.”

— G.S. Jennsen

“Step up to red alert." Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." - Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf”

— Rob Grant; Grant Naylor

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define…

— Tom Shippey

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

— China Mieville

“Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.”

— Laura Kreitzer

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

— Michael Jackson

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

— Arthur C. Clarke

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

— Michael Monroe

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

— Orson Scott Card

Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker.

— Panos Cosmatos

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

— Ivan Reitman

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

— Michael P. Anderson

“Funny story. A bunch of people -- the cult -- blame the appearance of abilities on the invention of the internet.”

— Alex Lane