Ya Fiction Quotes

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

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

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad.

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.

Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

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 nothing much ever happens.

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

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

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in science fiction and second in science.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.