We are writing the future in Letters of Fire.

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and…

— Ray Bradbury

“You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.”

— M. Kirin

My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

“We know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the…

— Roland Barthes

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

— John Updike

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

— Joe Haldeman

“I'm happy when I write. I've written my first novel, my pencil is down. My last work has been written. No turning back. No…

— Missy Salick

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

— Walter Kirn

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…

— Neil Gaiman

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

— Iris Murdoch

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

— Neil Gaiman

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written…

— Neil Gaiman

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with…

— William Congreve

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

— Agnes Repplier