Fiction Quote by Robert Sheckley Download Open image “Science fiction is very healthy in its form.” — Robert Sheckley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Form Health Healthy Science Science fiction
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought. — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science. — Judith Merril Copy Share Image
I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function? — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business,… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
“You must realize, Mr. Blaine, that a man is not his body, for he receives his body accidentally. He is not his skills, for… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
“But that's crazy, " George said. "How can I be the Average American Man? I'm only five foot eight and my name is Blaxter… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
“She was an extremely attractive woman if you liked the type, which could best be described as homicidal schizophrenic paranoiac with kittenish overtones.” — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even.… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account… — Robert Sheckley 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
