America Quote by Jerry Pournelle

I grew up reading science fiction.

— Jeff Bezos

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

— China Mieville

I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first…

— Peter Gould

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

— Octavia Butler

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

— Fred Saberhagen

As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now…

— David Grinspoon

I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.

— Manju Kapur

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

— Carl Sagan

I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

— Jon McGregor

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

— A. E. van Vogt