Boys Quote by Ray Bradbury

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

— Andrew Sean Greer

It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he…

— Octavia Butler

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in the 1990s.

— Liu Cixin

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

— Octavia Butler

I started writing when I was 11. In my late teens, I was writing short stories of every conceivable type and sent them to…

— Donald E. Westlake

Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters - hopeful or…

— Kameron Hurley

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

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

Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so it becomes…

— Alastair Reynolds

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone…

— James Cameron

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from…

— William Gibson