Adults Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

— Ken Liu

“Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that absolutely are…

— Orson Scott Card

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

— Rick Yancey

“Funny, they made this new genre called Speculative Fiction, I thought all fiction had always been speculative.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

— Kameron Hurley

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting…

— Fred Saberhagen

“In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes to which…

— Ella Berthoud

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

— Margaret Atwood

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

— Lorin Stein

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— Alex Flinn

Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been…

— Michael Dirda