Books Quote by Mira Grant

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

— Harlan Ellison

“Mark Rosewater wrote: Science fiction, at is core, is about exploring what if. It is literature investigating humanity’s potential. Fantasy, at its core, is…

— James M. Corkill

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science…

— Isaac Asimov

“Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.”

— Laura Resnick

Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers…

— Nalo Hopkinson

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as…

— Anne Edwards

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

— Michio Kaku

“One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythical covers. He had tried to use, as a…

— Stanisław Lem

“Accurate and questioning dramatic and written narratives that expose true human character, is the necessary glue of any intelligent, enduring and compassionate society.”

— Yon Walls

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the…

— Zadie Smith