Books Quote by Stephen King

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

“I’ve read science fiction and fantasy all my life – though when you’re a child, they just call that “books.” The first book I…

— Catherynne M. Valente

For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel…

— Brit Marling

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I've read fantasy my whole life. Quite literally; my mom read me The Hobbit before I could read stuff to myself. So I love…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary…

— Kate Forsyth

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't…

— Jim Woodring

Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.

— N. K. Jemisin

Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level…

— Joss Whedon

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

— Lois Lowry

Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in.…

— Raymond Carver

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.

— Kris Holden-Ried