Neil Gaiman Quotes About Science Fiction

Quotes about: Science Fiction

• Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem...

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Doctors, Blue

  "Neil Gaiman reveals power of writing Doctor Who" by Tim Masters, www.bbc.com. May 24, 2010.

• I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction Writers

  Source: www.sffworld.com

• I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Fiction, Stuff

  "Author Neil Gaiman Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 22, 2011.

• A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Laughing, Scary

• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Future, Fiction Novels, Pages

  Neil Gaiman (2002). “Adventures in the Dream Trade”, N E S F A Press

• As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish.

  Neil Gaiman

  Successful, Fiction Novels, Talking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

• There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to lose, those who feel that the time has come for revolution ... then out on the edges beyond any of those are science fiction fans whose favorite show has been canceled in an untimely way.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Upset, World

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