Book Quote by Connie Willis

“Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to read and…

— Daniel H. Wilson

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

— Bernard Werber

Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much about reading…

— Robin Sloan

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

— Susan Orlean

I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think that we…

— Richard Branson

The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books.

— David Edelstein

“Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science…

— Stephen Baxter

“Science fiction is the one literature that deals with today's reality - that provides a basis for discussion and understanding of the complex events…

— Biggle

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star…

— Robert Sheckley

I truly love science fiction; it's feeling you're something more than your present position in the world.

— David Hewlett

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out.…

— William Gibson

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley