Science Fiction Quotes

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

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

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

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.

I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.