19th century Quote by Robert Reed Download Open image “I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.” — Robert Reed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare 19th century Fiction Science Science fiction
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science. — Judith Merril Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible,… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I'm astonished how little fright I have of my own imagination. It really does baffle me that I don't get more scared because I'm… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
“With a whisper, Ash asked Shadow, “But why do you live this way? With him, in this kind of role?” In an Aaback fashion,… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
“How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different"....” — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing.… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image