Science fiction Quotes · Page 32

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Hafsah Laziaf

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

— William Gibson

I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'

— George Lucas

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

— Dan Simmons

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

— Don Hertzfeldt

“Be open to ideas and thoughts you disagree with. It will unleash a debate in your mind and soul.”

— James Kirk Bisceglia

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam…

— Steven-Elliot Altman

“Sometimes it's hard for me to understand that people can believe in me, that they can trust that I'll be anything more…

— Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels

The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon…

— Luis von Ahn

“Dammit, Gage. What the hell were you thinking?” “I wasn’t,” he shouts. “I was upset she wanted to stay, and I lost…

— Laura Kreitzer

For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I…

— Michio Kaku

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the…

— Nicolas Cage

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was…

— Ridley Scott

“How long the party lasted Forrester did not know. He remembered a long harangue in which the drunken ballet dancer was trying…

— Frederik Pohl

“Ten more minutes of walking, he guessed, and the bridge seemed to be no nearer. He was too cold to shiver. His…

— Neil Gaiman

My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't…

— Philip Reeve

“Try to think of it as though we are rewriting history––the first time this experience occurred you and I never kissed in…

— Ross Caligiuri

“For my money, noir boils down to bleak humanism – or, to put it more plainly: shit options, bad decisions, and dire…

— Chris F. Holm

Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people…

— Mark Cantrell

“Don’t go near that elevator—that’s just what they want us to do…trap us in a steel box and take us down to…

— Austin Dragon

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

— Gary Shteyngart

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

— Nicolas Cage

“Hijacking by pseudoscience and bad science fiction is a threat to our legitimate sense of wonder.”

— Richard Dawkins

I'm not a very big fan of science fiction. I think that I'm a very big fan of living in the physical…

— Pranav Mistry

“This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.”

— doris egan

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

— China Mieville

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

— Anson Mount

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

— Rick Baker

[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