Ya Fiction Quotes

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

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.

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

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

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

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

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

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

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

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

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

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

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

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?

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

I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction.

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.

When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.