Books Quote by David Brin

The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

— Northrop Frye

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.

— Arthur C. Clarke

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact,…

— Diana Gabaldon

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all…

— Scott Westerfeld

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

— Buzz Aldrin

More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a…

— Dan Mangan

Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

— Kathy Reichs

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not…

— Terry Pratchett

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

— Barbara Kingsolver