Science fiction Quotes · Page 19

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

— Dan Simmons

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

— Neil Gaiman

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

— William Gibson

“... But my voice is too soft. The wind picks up my words and swallows them whole.”

— Hafsah Laziaf

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

— Walter Wangerin

“When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“I feel like the Earth has cracked open and swallowed me into a bottomless abyss.”

— March Lions

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz”

— Anonymous

“For those who have never attended a science fiction convention, masquerades are features of most of the larger ones. Awards are presented…

— Gene Wolfe

I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William…

— Tahmoh Penikett

“Only a technological age could condemn unborn generations to exist in it, as if man were mere protoplasm, without emotion or aspiration.”

— Brian Aldiss

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value,…

— Gloria Steinem

I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish…

— Rian Johnson

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the…

— Darlene Cates

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the…

— Joel Edgerton

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in…

— J. Michael Straczynski

“He holds her for an eternity. Time cascades into the void of the past. She inhales his scent. Full of man and…

— Laura Kreitzer

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

“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

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

“Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and…

— Ray Bradbury

“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

“It was the dog Abel, who - as animals have been reported to do - had made his way over all England's…

— K.W. Jeter

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

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

— Michael Sheen

“I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.”

— Voltaire

“Be like the koru; as you go forward into the forever-changing future, always remain faithful to the point of origin.”

— Lauren Lola

When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant.

— Robert J. Sawyer

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Anyone can get their hands on a fortune but to become successful one must work intelligent and hard.”- EMW”

— Erik Martin Willén

People didn't love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what's best for it. You…

— Michael Monroe

“So I’m alone. I have no one. Is that what you’re telling me?” - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)”

— J.A. Huss

The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“Nice dress,” Victoria said. “Thank you,” Perpetua said. “Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?” Victoria blinked. “Uh, what?”

— Benjamin R. Smith

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

— Northrop Frye

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

— Matt Czuchry

“...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.”

— Brittany Hawes

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

— Rick Baker

I'm very picky with what I read. It's a specific genre of science fiction.

— Robert Whittaker