“But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. If… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“She thought he might have said her name, but it was background radiation accompanying the hum in her ears and the symphony… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“I catch movement from the corner of my eye. A tell slender boy stands near us, just a few feet away. Adrenaline… — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
“And tomorrow... what? Nobody knows. You understand? Neither I nor anyone else knows. It's unknown. You understand it's come to an end,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“And I'm thinking about the old man. He'll be pounding on the glass right about now... or maybe not now. Maybe in… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“You hunt and catch your own food. Am I correct?" "We are fierce predators of the night," DeChevue said proudly. Edwin tried… — Patrick E. McLean Copy Share Image
The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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“He holds her for an eternity. Time cascades into the void of the past. She inhales his scent. Full of man and… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance -… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality.… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
“Well, for one, you walk around like you’re so much better than everyone else. We’re all a bunch of soulless animals or… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There’s no pearly gate, no prisms of colors… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
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I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
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The idea that, you know - when I was growing up - that everybody would carry around a portable communicating device, that… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never… — Chidi Okonkwo Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Arthur C. Clark wrote: Science fiction is something that could happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something… — James M. Corkill Copy Share Image
In some ways, it's the start of all those science-fiction movies that we watched as kids coming to fruition where you've got… — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
“...this is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper,… — Philip K Dick Copy Share Image
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded about science fiction and a marvelous… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
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![“The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.” quote by George R. R. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/14d/george-r-r-martin-2-926_advice_the-best-writing-advice-i-had-was-in-hei_51395.jpg)
![“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up…” quote by Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ed7/michael-dirda-3414_1960s_nearly-all-the-writing-of-our-time-is-li_13506.jpg)
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