Science Fiction Quotes - Page 18

• I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions.

  Edward Einhorn

  Thinking, People, Elements

  Source: www.tor.com

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• 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.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Fiction, Fantasy, Realistic

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling sounds from the world around us is a great way to cement that illusion because you can go out and record an elevator in George Lucas's house or something, and it will have that motor sound.

  Ben Burtt

  Movie, Creating, House

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Reading, Commitment

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Needs, Fiction

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Boys, Roots

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• In my world of the people who study war and defense issues, we simply did not talk about robotics. We do not talk about it because it's seen as mere science fiction. It's cold, hard, metallic reality.

  Peter Singer

  War, Reality, Issues

  "Peter W. Singer’s Killer Robots". Interview with Eric Stoner, www.motherjones.com. January 29, 2009.

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• History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

  Peter Singer

  Issues, Looks, Fiction

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• No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

  China Mieville

  Sex, Fiction, Prestige

  Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.

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• One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

  China Mieville

  Fiction, Fantasy, Weirdness

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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.

  Edward Einhorn

  Mean, Ideas, People

  Source: www.tor.com

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• I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I love Dungeons & Dragons, so the opportunity to have a fantasy-based RTS, or real time strategy game, at that time, seemed cool. I started playing it, and the early games were simple, but fun and they had these great heroes.

  Duncan Jones

  Growing Up, Fun, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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• I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.

  Nina Hagen

  Fashion, Fiction, Triangles

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• Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fiction, Fantasy

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.22, Writer's Digest Books

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• ...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Believe, Writing

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• It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.

  David S. Goyer

  Book, Successful, People

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• That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

  Isaac Asimov

  Encounters, Fiction, Harm

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• I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I entered my teens, I got more into horror and science fiction and wrote a lot of short stories. A literary education complicated things and for many years I wrote nothing but poetry. Then I got back to story-telling.

  Peter Robinson

  Writing, Years, Robins

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Since I was really little, I've just always had an obsession with, not just science fiction, but science and space. And also because as time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

  Moby

  Space, Interesting, Fiction

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• I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.

  Rebecca Mader

  Fiction, Stuff, Science Love

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Fiction, Literature

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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

  DJ Spooky

  Thinking, Interesting, Sound

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And from, you know, small ideas, bigger ideas emerge. So we're starting with suborbital space flights and we'll then go into orbital space flights and, you know, maybe one day we'll send people on a one-way voyage into the depths of space as per the science fiction trips.

  Richard Branson

  Space Flight, Ideas, People

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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