Conventional Quote by William Gibson

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

— Iain Banks

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers…

— Stanley Schmidt

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be…

— Stanley Schmidt

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern…

— Matthew Specktor

I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is…

— Ken Liu

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is…

— Jane Yolen

When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the…

— Vernor Vinge

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

— Sherman Alexie

I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the…

— Tom Perrotta