Book Quote by Doris Lessing

“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we…

— Salman Rushdie

Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so it becomes…

— Alastair Reynolds

One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility…

— Kate Forsyth

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong…

— Ben Dolnick

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

— George MacDonald

“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 a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury

Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am…

— Sandra Cisneros

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And…

— Joel Edgerton

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I…

— Paul Auster

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it…

— David McCullough