Day life Quote by Jonathan Lethem

“To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and…

— Arthur C. Clarke

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal…

— Graham Joyce

I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'

— Alexander Skarsgard

“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a scheme of…

— Don Borchert

“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the fiction was…

— William Gibson

“You like almost every genre, but you’re a binge genre reader. When you’re on a science-fiction kick, you stay with sci-fi for weeks. Then,…

— Ellery Adams

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley

“The twentieth century was the Science Fiction Century. Science fiction affected everything, and we now live in a science fiction world.”

— Charles N. Brown

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of…

— Doris Lessing

“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

“Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to read and…

— Daniel H. Wilson