Art Quote by John Updike

“Fiction is a set of observable manifestations, as represented and frozen in language, that triggers a profoundly subjective and individual experience. Ultimately, this is…

— Brian Evenson

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers…

— Stanley Schmidt

“You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.”

— M. Kirin

My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

“We know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the…

— Roland Barthes

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

— Joe Haldeman

“I'm happy when I write. I've written my first novel, my pencil is down. My last work has been written. No turning back. No…

— Missy Salick

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

— Walter Kirn

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and…

— Ray Bradbury

“We are writing the future in Letters of Fire.”

— Neil Gaiman

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

— John Updike

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

— John Updike