Ya Science Fiction Quotes

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

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.

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.

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

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

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad.

Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

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.

I'm a huge science fiction fan...

I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

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

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

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.

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

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.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.