Book Quote by Jean M. Auel

When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers…

— Nalo Hopkinson

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon…

— David Brin

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

— Harlan Ellison

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of…

— Ray Bradbury

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction…

— Ray Bradbury

“When you mix Science Fiction with Fantasy you don't have a pure genre, the two are, to a professional separate genres. I noticed today…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

— Ray Bradbury

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

— Jack Williamson

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

— Norman Spinrad

“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of…

— Ray Bradbury

Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition:…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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