Science fiction Quotes · Page 29

“All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward.”

— Karen Azinger

“The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil... my next The Opposite Of Magic.”

— Ivan Stoikov - Allan Bard

“It was as unsatisfying as a handjob from someone wearing an oven mitt.”

— Paul Di Filippo

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

— Vonda N. McIntyre

I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone…

— Rainbow Rowell

I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction.

— Hank Green

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It…

— Michio Kaku

Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I…

— Tananarive Due

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes…

— Ray Bradbury

“The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to…

— Ray Bradbury

“One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways…

— J.Z. Colby

“I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their differences, and reject only…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a…

— Melissa Rosenberg

Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I…

— Joseph Kosinski

Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the…

— James Berardinelli

“He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to…

— T.A. Miles

I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before…

— Ernest Cline

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres…

— David Brin

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science…

— George R. R. Martin

“As her vision flickered one last time, the man was gone; it was her mother looking into her eyes. Her mother’s eyes…

— Kim Cormack

“I’ve never liked urban myths. I’ve never liked pretending to believe in them; never understood why everyone else doesn’t see straight through…

— Mikey Campling

I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I…

— Robert Reed

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

— Octavia Butler

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

— Damon Lindelof

“Here's a thought. You answer what I ask and I keep not killing you." - Antiope Flint - DREAMNASIUM”

— Geoffrey Thorne

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in…

— Anonymous

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

— Robert Whittaker

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be…

— Martin Rees

“We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.”

— Norman Spinrad

“Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there…”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

[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

“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