Fiction Quote by Damon Knight Download Open image “Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.” — Damon Knight ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Inspirational Science Science fiction Writing
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science. — Judith Merril Copy Share Image
Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction. — Lynn Hershman Leeson Copy Share Image
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.' — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought. — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
“If you are miserable and ill, I can understand why you would not want to live a long time. But if you are happy… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
“In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover, clink-clank. Steam… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
