Science Fiction And Fantasy Quotes:

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Balance, Fiction, Cliffs, Science Fiction And Fantasy

Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could.

- Arthur C. Clarke

source: Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: History Lesson”, p.6, RosettaBooks

topic: Blood, Wish, Fiction, Science Fiction And Fantasy

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

- Rod Serling

topic: Writing, Creative, Fiction, Creative Writing, Science Fiction And Fantasy

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: Ursula K. Le Guin (2015). “Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Empathy, Apathy, Fiction, Science Fiction And Fantasy

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

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Differences, Tree, Fiction, Science Fiction And Fantasy

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

- Leonard Nimoy

source: "Fictional character: Spock". "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", www.imdb.com. 1982.

topic: Needs, Kirk, Mr Spock, Combustion, Spontaneous Combustion

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

- Frank Herbert

source: Frank Herbert (2010). “Heretics Of Dune: The Fifth Dune Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fear, Favourite Book, Overcoming Failure

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Great Feelings, Always Happy

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Dream, Believe, Writing, Science Fiction And Fantasy

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..

- Rutger Hauer

topic: Believe, People, Science Fiction Movie, Sci Fi Film, Sci Fi Movie

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

- George Lucas

source: George Lucas (2015). “ArtFolds: Yoda: Yoda and the Force”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspiring Movie, Knowing The Future

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

- Jean M. Auel

topic: Book, Ideas, Fiction, Science Fiction And Fantasy

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.

- Nalo Hopkinson

topic: People, Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction And Fantasy

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

- Hari Kunzru

source: "When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

topic: Imagination, Teens, Fiction, Science Fiction And Fantasy

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

- Ruth Glick

source: "'Dark Powers' Author Rebecca York". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 21, 2012.

topic: Teenager, Character, Stories, Science Fiction And Fantasy

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

- Michael Scott

topic: Writing, Romance, Advice, Romance Novel, Science Fiction And Fantasy

At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Challenges, Innovation, Fiction, Fantasy Stories, Experience And Learning

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

- David S. Goyer

source: "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with lison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Creating Worlds, Science Fiction And Fantasy

I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.

- Roger Zelazny

source: "A Conversation With Roger Zelazny". Talking with Terry Dowling and Keith Curtis in Science Fiction Vol. 1, #2, June 1978.

topic: Writing, Character, Mean, Science Fiction And Fantasy

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

- Jean M. Auel

topic: Book, Thinking, Long, Science Fiction And Fantasy

I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got the best of both British and American television and books, science fiction and fantasy, and so on. So I'm familiar with a lot of, for example, American books and television that a British author of my generation might not be.

- Garth Nix

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Book, Thinking, Australia, American Television, Science Fiction And Fantasy

I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.

- Jon Spaihts

source: Source: collider.com

topic: War, Kids, Years, Best Science, Science Fiction And Fantasy

I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I love Dungeons & Dragons, so the opportunity to have a fantasy-based RTS, or real time strategy game, at that time, seemed cool. I started playing it, and the early games were simple, but fun and they had these great heroes.

- Duncan Jones

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Growing Up, Fun, Real, Books And Movies, Science Fiction And Fantasy

I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don’t collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it’s music I actually listen to.

- Michael Chabon

source: "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 2012.

topic: Fiction, Records, Fantasy, Science Fiction And Fantasy

Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.

- Robert Kazinsky

topic: Fiction, Fantasy, Geek, Science Fiction And Fantasy

It's funny because when I was growing up, I was really into science fiction and fantasy as a kid. And, when I first became a screenwriter, I ended up really just doing historical drama and non-fiction based stuff, like Band of Brothers and stuff that didn't get made, but was also non-fiction.

- John Orloff

topic: Brother, Growing Up, Drama, Science Fiction And Fantasy

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

- China Mieville

topic: Fiction, Geek, Fantasy, Science Fiction And Fantasy

Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.

- Billy Campbell

source: "Q&A – Billy Campbell (Darren Richmond)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2012.

topic: Graphic Novels, Board Games, Science Fiction And Fantasy, Napoleonic, Naval Warfare

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

- Michael Sheen

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fiction, Fans, Scared, Science Fiction And Fantasy