Speculative Quotes

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I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

Rebecca woke up with her knees hurting and her fingers ice-cold, and the specifics of her life returned to her as the dream disappeared: weekend, hotel room, Baguio, memory, memory, memory.

As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.

Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.

If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.

Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers, moving ever so lightly with the draft.

It is as it is. Betren son of Bromwell Defender of Delmarath

In the desert there is no sign that says, 'Thou shalt not eat stones.

This is more than an experience in the shadows of sleep.

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.

[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.

With timid curiosity, I asked, “what do you mean the old bodies get reused?

Hades cracked his knuckles on each hand, and the noise was like gunpowder caps exploding in the silence. "First dish duty, " he mumbled to himself, "now possessed cowboys. This just isn't my night.

Because there wasn’t anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen tablewith a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn’t happened, though. At least not yet.

Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

One second she’s all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.

All because I fell in love with a madman.

My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?

All things are important to Elôm, even the little things.

Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.

The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly!

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.

I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.

You sit beside the sorcerer, your love, and unzip your ribs. Tucked under your heart is a small oak box, plain and unvarnished. You offer it to the sorcerer. 'I brought this for you.

If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story.

Matt shrugged. It was a good shrug, too. All it was missing was a beret, a stripy shirt and a Gauloise cigarette.

People won't change until the pain of not changing is greater than the pain changing brings.

We are all of the same substance, the same life. Though there are many differences between us, those are merely the shadows that delineate our boundaries. Our light is the same.

Reality worked its way into my dreams where it wasn’t welcome.

Koji pulled Ruben onto the next cog. Together, they became part of the space between things.

One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.