Fiction Quote by Norman Spinrad Download Open image “Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.” — Norman Spinrad ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Science Science fiction
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science. — Judith Merril Copy Share Image
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.' — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction. — Lynn Hershman Leeson Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
“Stay a dreamer, and you'll never have your dream; get down in the nitty-gritty, and when you get your dream you see what horseshit… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
“Cat Rambo: Where do you think the perennial debate between what is literary fiction and what is genre is sited? Norman Spinrad: I think… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
