--- title: "7 Sf Writers Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Sf Writers quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Sf Writers sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/david-grinspoon-5141_best_i-think-the-best-sf-writers-are-very-awa_9812.jpg" --- > [I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-grinspoon/i-think-the-best-sf-writers-are-very-aware-of-what-we-in-the/) [David Grinspoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-grinspoon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/david-grinspoon-5141_best_i-think-the-best-sf-writers-are-very-awa_9812.jpg) > [I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-m-lerner/i-have-to-believe-sf-writers-will-continue-to-inspire-the-public-to/) [Edward M. Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-m-lerner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1e/edward-m-lerner-19914_believe_i-have-to-believe-sf-writers-will-contin_353627.jpg) > [Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudy-rucker/advice-to-beginning-sf-writers-write-a-lot-finish-what-you-write-and/) [Rudy Rucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudy-rucker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ef/rudy-rucker-12413_advice_advice-to-beginning-sf-writers-write-a-l_371390.jpg) > [Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-schmidt/of-course-the-way-writers-think-about-those-things-is-almost-certain/) [Stanley Schmidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-schmidt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34d/stanley-schmidt-26994_affected_of-course-the-way-writers-think-about-th_498586.jpg) > [“Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-de-lint/having-to-amuse-myself-during-those-earlier-years-i-read-voraciously/) [Charles de Lint](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-de-lint/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/charles-de-lint-1481_book-review_having-to-amuse-myself-during-those-earl_737049.jpg) > [Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/pop-science-goes-flying-off-in-all-kinds-of-fashionable-directions/) [Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d93/greg-egan-8766_all-kinds_pop-science-goes-flying-off-in-all-kinds_1628710.jpg) > [Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-morris/very-little-in-science-fiction-can-transcend-the-gimmickry-of-a/) [Janet Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-morris/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e8/janet-morris-1935_areas_very-little-in-science-fiction-can-trans_1905285.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sf-writers/#itemlist", "name": "Sf Writers Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Grinspoon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-grinspoon/i-think-the-best-sf-writers-are-very-aware-of-what-we-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/david-grinspoon-5141_best_i-think-the-best-sf-writers-are-very-awa_9812.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/david-grinspoon-5141_best_i-think-the-best-sf-writers-are-very-awa_9812.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/david-grinspoon-5141_best_i-think-the-best-sf-writers-are-very-awa_9812.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and…” — David Grinspoon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward M. 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Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading—retellings of the old stories ( Mallory, White, Briggs ), anecdotal collections and historical investigations of the stories' backgrounds—and then I stumbled upon the Tolkien books which took me back to Lord Dunsany, William Morris, James Branch Cabell, E.R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake and the like. I was in heaven when Lin Carter began the Unicorn imprint for Ballantine and scoured the other publishers for similar good finds, delighting when I discovered someone like Thomas Burnett Swann , who still remains a favourite. This was before there was such a thing as a fantasy genre, when you'd be lucky to have one fantasy book published in a month, little say the hundreds per year we have now. I also found myself reading Robert E. Howard (the Cormac and Bran mac Morn books were my favourites), Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and finally started reading science fiction after coming across Andre Norton 's Huon of the Horn. That book wasn't sf, but when I went to read more by her, I discovered everything else was. So I tried a few and that led me to Clifford Simak, Roger Zelazny and any number of other fine sf writers. These days my reading tastes remain eclectic, as you might know if you've been following my monthly book review column in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction . I'm as likely to read Basil Johnston as Stephen King, Jeanette Winterson as Harlan Ellison, Barbara Kingsolver as Patricia McKillip, Andrew Vachss as Parke Godwin —in short, my criteria is that the book must be good; what publisher's slot it fits into makes absolutely no difference to me.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles de Lint" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-de-lint/having-to-amuse-myself-during-those-earlier-years-i-read-voraciously/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/charles-de-lint-1481_book-review_having-to-amuse-myself-during-those-earl_737049.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/charles-de-lint-1481_book-review_having-to-amuse-myself-during-those-earl_737049.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/charles-de-lint-1481_book-review_having-to-amuse-myself-during-those-earl_737049.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. 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