Terry Pratchett Quotes About Science Fiction

Quotes about: Science Fiction

• I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'Horror is a bit passe so this is Dark Fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. So that's why I say I'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'It doesn't read like what I think of as a fantasy'. In that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. Or there is more to it than you think.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dark, Thinking, Games

  Source: bobneilson.org

• [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!

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Fiction, Way

• The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Thinking, Doctors

• It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Clever, Real

  "Sir Terry Pratchett: hallucinating gently for a living". Interview with Corinne Podger, www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2011.

• I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Reader

  "Terry Pratchett: 'Fantasy is uni-age'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2013.

• I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Reading, Years

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction

• We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long, Fiction, Done

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

• I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Library, Fiction

• I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fiction, Firsts, Astronomy

• When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kids, Fiction, Fantasy

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