1950s Quote by Philip K. Dick

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

— J. G. Ballard

Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying,…

— Robert J. Sawyer

It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is…

— William Gibson

I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always…

— Melvyn Bragg

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer.…

— Richard K. Morgan

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

— Don Hertzfeldt

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

— Sara Paretsky

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

— Fred Saberhagen

Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about…

— Robert J. Sawyer

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.

— Bob Dylan

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979

— Kinky Friedman