Fiction Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

“But I was not a domesticated animals...The dirt and grit of a city, the unending wakefulness of it, the crowdedness, the constant light obscuring…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never…

— Jeff VanderMeer

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

— David Twohy

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…

— Ray Bradbury

“Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean." -Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN”

— Chaz Thompson

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

— Brian Aldiss

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which…

— Gil Gerard

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…

— Michael Dirda

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…

— Neil Gaiman

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

— Ray Bradbury

“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.…

— Orson Scott Card

“Science fiction and fantasy, though they seem to be about the future or fictional worlds, are always at their core really about the problems…

— John Joseph Adams