Top 1200 Science Fiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 13
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
I mostly get bored by comedies, action movies, science fiction movies - they are so predictable.
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
As a science fiction fan, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award mean a lot to me.
I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.
I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
I had never been much of a science-fiction or Buck Rogers fan. I was more interested in what was going on right now than in the centuries to come.
Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.
Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the category, dismissed as a branch of juvenile literature.
Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind.
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
I remember starting 'Game of Thrones,' everyone said 'you have to watch it,' but I thought 'it's science fiction, it's not real, it's nothing.' I gave it a go and then couldn't stop watching it.
After the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, science fiction became a tool for popularizing scientific knowledge, and its main intended readers were children.
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.
Science fiction's been good to me. The fans are the most loyal fans in the world.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.
To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.
Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.
Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it.
Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any of those things except with the added definition of intensified formal pressure.
The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.
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.
People who love science fiction really do love sex.
I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.
When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.
I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.
I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.
'Lost,' at its core, is a science-fiction show. Live music helps lend an air of legitimacy to this otherwise crazy storyline. It makes a big difference.
I remember someone told me Donald Trump may not leave after the election. It seemed like a fictional, almost science-fiction idea.
Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
Something like 'Alien,' that was not so easy. If there's any genre I wouldn't mind not having to do anymore, it would be science fiction. It's just all to do with the toys, and there's so much hanging around.
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
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.
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA.
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.
Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in genre.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.
I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
A strong story can move me to tears, and it doesn't matter whether it's a science-fiction or fantasy world. It's about what happens to a person, the choices they make. That's what's interesting.
