Fiction Science Quotes

#1. Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.

Tyffani Clark Kemp

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

Neil Gaiman

#3. Need to get to Ruislip by sparrow-fart though', said the squadron leader. 'Think you can do that? Can I come along for the ride?

Robert Rankin

#4. He didn't want to talk about London's wreck, and so he steered the conversation back towards Professor Pennyroyal's favourite subject: Professor Pennyroyal.

Tom Reeves

#5. [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

#6. Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisted - a discussion point in the nature vs nurture debate which had not died in half a millennium.

Neal Asher

#7. Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

Douglas Adams

#8. I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

Michael P. Anderson

#9. Evolve...or Die...

Kipjo Kenyatta Ewers

#10. The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

Lindsay Wagner

#11. But this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the extra moon that is circling the earth unbeknownst to science.

Lorrie Moore

#12. Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

Octavia Butler

#13. These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed.

J.G. Ballard

#14. Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.

L.E. Horn

#15. The unfortunate 8075 hadn't survived his assault, splintering apart, fragments of its casing skittering across the bench. The battery within had split along its plane, revealing something as out-of-place as a missile in a bathtub.

A. Ashley Straker

#16. Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

Paul Di Filippo

#17. I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it's on. I made the kids watch it every time, too and now they just love watching it. Stanley Kubrick's great. And Blade Runner is one of my top three science fiction films. A lot of it has come true.

Bruce Willis

#18. To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear - each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.

Caroline George

#19. If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better.

Alexandar Tomov

#20. Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their death ride to the murky bottom.

Dean Koontz

#21. When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#22. I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

Stanislaw Lem

#23. All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#24. A machine does not care

Tom Godwin

#25. Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.

John Pipkin

#26. Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

Vinton Cerf

#27. I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

Mark Goddard

#28. Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.
Tick, tick, tick.

Laura Kreitzer

#29. I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Neil LaBute

#30. That's it. Keep that edge. Fight like there's no tomorrow.

Henry V. O'Neil

#31. In 1890, Donnelly published Caesar's Column, a dystopian science fiction novel set in the far-off 1980s, when the United States had become a capitalist tyranny controlled by a ruthless Jewish oligarchy.

Arthur Goldwag

#32. An illusion is when everyone is in on the joke, a delusion is when you are the joke.

Austin Aragon

#33. If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

John Twelve Hawks

#34. Jake's in trouble.'
Luca rolled his eyes. 'What now?'
'He's gone off somewhere, I think I know where, and I don't think it's good.'
'Cant that boy ever stay in and watch telly like the rest of us?

Sharon Sant

#35. I've always wondered though," Orn mused aloud, "what does God need with a starship?"
"Are you going to make that stupid quip every time we pass a missionary ship?"
"Until they learn a new position.

Sabrina Zbasnik

#36. The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Frederik Pohl

#37. The screech of tyres, an almighty bang and a car exploded through the playground wall like a high-velocity bullet through a watermelon.

Kev Heritage

#38. We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.

Karen Thompson Walker

#39. Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.

Greg Bear

#40. We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.

T.L. Rese

#41. Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Doris Lessing

#42. In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

Roger Corman

#43. He turned and sauntered out of my cell, knowing I would do exactly what he said--just like I always did when he threatened with the life of my brother.

Heidi Tankersley

#44. One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.

Brian Greene

#45. From the dark forest that bordered the soft ploughed fields, came a low cry that did not belong to any animal. It was accompanied by the sound of branches bending and snapping, and the splintering of wood as trees were crushed or toppled onto their sides.

Peter James West

#46. Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's just desire. You want to have it around, take it home and set it up somewhere in the apartment like a lamp.

Philip K. Dick

#47. Queers can't destroy science fiction. No one can. No one can destroy the future. But we can, through malice or complacency or inattention, limit the future.

Sigrid Ellis

#48. Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!

Nancy Farmer

#49. There's no right or wrong way. There's only the truth.

Siobhan Davis

#50. The overriding sense of Tokyo ... is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but profound way: a postmodern science-fiction story set ten minutes in the future.

David Rakoff

#51. I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

Sarah Sutton

#52. This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.

Henry Mosquera

#53. During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.

Fay Weldon

#54. Trout might have said, and it can be said of me as well, that he created caricatures rather than characters. His animus against so-called mainstream literature, moreover, wasn't peculiar to him. It was generic among writers of science fiction.

Kurt Vonnegut

#55. A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

Robert A. Heinlein

#56. In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

Michio Kaku

#57. I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001

Pippa DaCosta

#58. Travelers aren't found. They're called.

Chess Desalls

#59. About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.

Lois Tilton

#60. But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures.

Anonymous

#61. In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.

Ray Bradbury

#62. It's the first instance where I believe that it might actually be wrong, the first time I feel like a bit of a creep.

Siobhan Davis

#63. Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!

Asse Sauga

#64. She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval.
He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He consumes her with this single act.

Laura Kreitzer

#65. Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their money back for

Katee Sackhoff

#66. Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Rudy Rucker

#67. Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

John Scalzi

#68. In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

J. Michael Straczynski

#69. I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist in Peter Hatcher. When I reached the fourth grade, I made the leap to science fiction and never looked back.

Jeff Kinney

#70. It was just a colour out of space - a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.

H.P. Lovecraft

#71. My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

Jean M. Auel

#72. I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.

Robert A. Heinlein

#73. What is Gornite? Why can't you heat it? Will it make you laugh? - I hope so

Lucas Riddle

#74. A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#75. Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Margaret Atwood

#76. Living with you will be like
aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect.

Ted Chiang

#77. The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.

Jon Spaihts

#78. Mutants, super beings, gods, aliens, a guy who sticks to walls at one extreme, a creature who eats planets at the other; Each one that comes into being, they feel, diminishes the rest of humanity, ordinary homo sapiens, that little bit more.

Jim Lee

#79. The magical gem bracelet, in all of its yellow beauty, was out of its league. My mind and heart couldn't slow down." --- Jennifer Mills

Dianne Bright

#80. Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

Ann Leckie

#81. She captured the spot of my world's centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.

Richard Ronald Allan

#82. I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction. It's a new technology, and it's new science that people are becoming familiar with. It's critical for us to do everything we can to enable the privacy level that people want.

Anne Wojcicki

#83. The antagonists of finance's future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.

Usman W. Chohan

#84. Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.

Kate Wilhelm

#85. I trade with you my mind.

Clifford D. Simak

#86. She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

Nancy Farmer

#87. Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.

Paul Di Filippo

#88. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!

A.A. Bell

#89. No status change, we hold our fire.

Just Josh

#90. THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD Experience Card's full versatility, from science fiction to fantasy, from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction.

Orson Scott Card

#91. Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

J. Michael Straczynski

#92. A joke is a witticism or play on words that's meant to be funny. I say 'meant to be' because most jokes aren't funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.

Michael Monroe

#93. Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

Katharine Kerr

#94. Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Robert Charles Wilson

#95. We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

Martin Gardner

#96. Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

Haruki Murakami

#97. We'll go along with it for now. Valkyrie, keep close watch and be ready to swoop to the rescue."

'Hopefully swooping will not be required, nor rescue. But I am ready to do both.'

He squeezed her hand. "Alex?"

"I'm ready, too.

G.S. Jennsen

#98. His appearance projected danger and reinforced the common knowledge that one did not want to piss off a demon, especially this one.

Kiersten Fay

#99. Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked him through the Gate into Darkness--might Science yet summon him back?

Ian Weir

#100. There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.

Kameron Hurley