Age Quote by N. K. Jemisin

I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.

— Laura van den Berg

I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

It's funny because when I was growing up, I was really into science fiction and fantasy as a kid. And, when I first became…

— John Orloff

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

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“Rigorous extrapolation, a gosh-wow love of gadgets, and mystical adventures in strange and mysterious places; every major stream in speculative fiction today can be…

— Orson Scott Card

I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to be a…

— Jenny Han

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at…

— Michael Chabon

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

— Tomi Adeyemi

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

— Kris Holden-Ried

I grew up reading science fiction.

— Jeff Bezos