#science fiction

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction. ↗

— Scott Thompson

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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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

— Walter Jon Williams

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I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult. ↗

— Matt Groening

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I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time. ↗

— William Hurt

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Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

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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. ↗

— Greg Bear

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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. ↗

— David Brin

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