Ya Science Fiction Quotes

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

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

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.

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

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.

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.

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.

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.

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.

As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.

I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.

The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.

Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

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.

Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas.

I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

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.

It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.

Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.

I love science fiction.

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.