Fiction Quote by William Gibson

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

— Joe Haldeman

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we…

— Samuel R. Delany

“Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science…

— Stephen Baxter

The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And…

— William Gibson

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.

— Vilayat Inayat Khan

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science…

— Elizabeth Moon

“The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what…

— Andrzej Stasiuk

“It is only through fiction that we truly explore our future, as the future is no longer an extension of the present.”

— Martin Talks

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science…

— Anonymous

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

— John Updike

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so…

— Jerry Pournelle

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

— Faith Popcorn