Fiction Quote by Sheri S. Tepper Download Open image “Science fiction still is an idea genre.” — Sheri S. Tepper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Genre Ideas Science Science fiction Stills
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 one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought. — Amanda Schull 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 a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science. — Judith Merril Copy Share Image
“We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from.… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“cultures define their gods when they’re young and primitive, when their main concern is survival. They endow their gods with survival characteristics like omnipotence… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever,… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Faith healers. God-loves-you religions. State-supported lotteries. All that enormous energy expended to conquer nothing at all, stadia full of people watching no conquering going… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Rich people didn't get in that kind of mess. They never had. Only the poor got trapped: by ignorance, by religion, by self-righteous laws… — Sheri S. Tepper 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