Science fiction Quotes
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Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.
Steven Spielberg
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
Jack Vance -
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
Jack Williamson -
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
Gail Carriger -
I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
Gail Carriger -
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance
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As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden -
As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.
Gail Carriger -
You've got your 'X-Files' and now 'Lost,' which is arguably science fiction, though one could say it's something else.
Brannon Braga -
I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and the Beats, but before that, it was a lot of science fiction.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it.
Carrie Vaughn -
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.
Kingsley Amis
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If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.
Nolan Bushnell -
As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
Buzz Aldrin -
Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.
Kingsley Amis -
There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.
Steven Spielberg -
The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.
Jack Roy
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I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.
Michael Jackson -
Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.
Chuck Klosterman -
If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not just cookie-cutter - that they bring something fresh or original to it, have some kind of ideas to it. I've been fortunate, in some sense, to do those kinds of movies that are unique.
Keanu Reeves -
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.
Alan Alda