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Science Fiction Quotes

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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
Allen Ginsberg

Authors on Science Fiction Quotes: Theodore Sturgeon Frederik Pohl China Mieville Arthur C. Clarke Terry Pratchett Jamie Clayton Orson Scott Card Yancy Butler Dale Jamieson Nnedi Okorafor Steven Spielberg Alastair Reynolds Lynn Hershman Leeson James Callis Ray Bradbury Claudia Christian Matthew Tobin Anderson Joanna Russ Jack Vance William Gibson Damon Knight Kerry James Marshall Romola Garai Alice Hoffman Frank Herbert Colin Farrell Michael Dirda Judith Merril Neil Gaiman Will Smith Emma Caulfield Ryan Gosling Allen Ginsberg
2.
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
Joanna Russ

3.
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
Nnedi Okorafor

4.
He who controls the spice controls the universe.
Frank Herbert

5.
I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.
Jamie Clayton

6.
Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.
Damon Knight

7.
I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
Frederik Pohl

8.
I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
Colin Farrell

9.
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
Arthur C. Clarke

10.
I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.
Neil Gaiman

11.
I was always attracted to science fiction movies
Tina Turner

12.
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.
Judith Merril

13.
I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
Yancy Butler

14.
You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.
Michio Kaku

15.
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
Ray Bradbury

16.
Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
Walter Wangerin

17.
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.
Ursula K. Le Guin

18.
I've always been interested in science fiction
Martin Landau

19.
I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.
Romola Garai

20.
Science fiction is the very literature of change.
Frederik Pohl

21.
I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
Alice Hoffman

22.
Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.
Ben Browder

23.
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
Charlie Jane Anders

24.
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance

25.
We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.
Dale Jamieson

26.
Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.
Kerry James Marshall

27.
Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.
Lynn Hershman Leeson

28.
I don't read Science Fiction.
Brent Spiner

29.
The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
Theodore Sturgeon

30.
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
Matthew Tobin Anderson

31.
Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.
Claudia Christian

32.
The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.
Arthur C. Clarke

33.
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.
Ryan Gosling

34.
I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my cold dead hands.
Alastair Reynolds

35.
I do love science-fiction and horror movies.
Nicolas Ghesquiere

36.
Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
Michael Dirda

37.
I was a very keen reader of science fiction.
Terry Pratchett

38.
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
Margaret Atwood

39.
What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.
Larissa Sansour

40.
I'm a huge science fiction fan...
Emma Caulfield

41.
I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.
Toni Jerrman

42.
Science fiction is an extension of science.
Len Wiseman

43.
Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.
Terry Pratchett

44.
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.
Jamais Cascio

45.
Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God
Johnny Hart

46.
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
China Mieville

47.
Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
Zoe Saldana

48.
Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.
Norman Spinrad

49.
I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science fiction writers who think of themselves as having some sort of prophetic role, but when I think of that, I always think of H.G. Wells - he would think of what was going to happen, and he would imagine how it would happen, and then he would create a fiction to illustrate the idea that he'd had. And no part of my process has ever resembled that at all.
William Gibson

50.
Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
Greg Bear