High Quote by Leigh Bardugo

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

— Octavia Butler

I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all…

— Terry Pratchett

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in the 1990s.

— Liu Cixin

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.

— Kris Holden-Ried

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

— Cary Fukunaga

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science…

— Octavia Butler

Reading, like writing, was a survival strategy when I was young because these were ways of feeling that my world could be much larger…

— Leigh Bardugo

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

— Sabaa Tahir

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

— Neil Gaiman

I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read…

— Jon Spaihts

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one…

— Salman Rushdie