About Quote by Russell Smith

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

— Haruki Murakami

In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need new ways…

— Pankaj Mishra

In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim…

— Annalee Newitz

“To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and…

— Arthur C. Clarke

There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events, too eager…

— Michelle Dean

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

— John Updike

“All I'm saying is that there is a generation gap, and I think it revolves around this public/private thing. Our generation -- we subscribe…

— David Lodge

Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You…

— Mordecai Richler

“Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to read and…

— Daniel H. Wilson

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

— Connie Willis

“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As…

— Richard Flanagan