I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just for its… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
The reality of space travel I think is somewhere in the middle. We will get there, it will be hard, it will take a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I think the greatest danger of the promise of space travel is that it can lead us to be cavalier about the world we… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
You want the mystical understanding of the cosmos to feel compatible with a scientific understanding of the cosmos, like it extends our understanding rather… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
