Quotes About Speculative Fiction

#1. I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

Fred Saberhagen

#2. If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

Jennifer Weiner

#3. In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.

Josh Malerman

#4. In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes to which we can escape and exercise our love for all things beyond our ken. close off these speculative worlds at your peril.

Ella Berthoud

#5. Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

Margaret Atwood

#6. There are three phrases that make possible the world of writing about the world of not-yet (you can call it science fiction or speculative fiction; you can call it anything you wish) and they are simple phrases: What if . . . ? If only . . . If this goes on

Ray Bradbury

#7. I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

Rick Yancey

#8. Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that absolutely are not like the observable world around them.

Orson Scott Card

#9. Funny, they made this new genre called Speculative Fiction, I thought all fiction had always been speculative.

Teri Louise Kelly

#10. Speculative fiction both requires and rewards an open mind.

Steven Poore

#11. Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. Regardless of religion (or lack thereof), lovers of speculative fiction will swallow up these provocative stories. - Erin O'Riordan,

Tim Lieder

#13. I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

Nnedi Okorafor

#14. Speculative fiction includes all stories that take place in a setting contrary to known reality.

Orson Scott Card

#15. Is there any greater mystery than the separateness of each person?

Laura Van Den Berg

#16. Soon we were downloading ourselves
into laptops, phones or pads, freer
than we had hoped,

floating centrifugally across the Internet
to swim alongside forgotten
selfies, spam emails and porn

Cyril Wong

#17. This is more than an experience in the shadows of sleep.

Richard Bunning

#18. My writing objective is to remove the stage and sing, dance, laugh and cry with the audience as one spirit.

Cathie Wright-Lewis

#19. Humans are strange. ... They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. ... it's vanity.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#20. Seriously man, what are you waiting for? Get in there - or I will. - Marek Montvene

J.C. Morrows

#21. People won't change until the pain of not changing is greater than the pain changing brings.

Just B. Jordan

#22. I mean, that was the code, wasn't it? Single girls and taken guys weren't allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.

Carrie Butler

#23. As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.

Ken Liu

#24. Closed head trauma is about as much fun as nude paintballing.

D.C. Farmer

#25. I shake my head and rub the bridge of my nose. "There's a whole lot more at stake here than just my happiness, so I'll let the doctors do whatever tests they want and answer any questions they have. But after that we save the world. And then we move on, okay?

Kara Swanson

#26. There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.

Andy Weir

#27. With timid curiosity, I asked, what do you mean the old bodies get reused?

Andrew Cormier

#28. It is as it is. Betren son of Bromwell Defender of Delmarath

Cynthia Willerth

#29. The whole world's a ghost factory. We all fade like the paint on these buildings, sometimes from too much sun, sometimes from too little. We blur and blend to the murky shades left behind when something vivid dies.

Will Ludwigsen

#30. I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river.

Eugie Foster

#31. The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river water struggle against each other at a river mouth, the old time and the new time clash and blend.

Haruki Murakami

#32. One second she's all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.

Carrie Butler

#33. [sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.

Peter F. Hamilton

#34. My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin.

Carrie Butler

#35. As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

William Gibson

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

Alexandar Tomov

#37. Because there wasn't anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen table
with a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn't happened, though. At least not yet.

Ann Gimpel

#38. Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers, moving ever so lightly with the draft.

Jeffrey Panzer

#39. First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.

Ryan Sean O'Reilly

#40. Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.

Laura Resnick

#41. War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.

Paul Di Filippo

#42. Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

E.J. Stevens

#43. Quote from "Unexpected Tales from the Ends of the Earth":
"The only one everlasting love is the unrealized one. The love to this thing that you'd never had. Behind it is hidden the love to your own ego and feelings".

Alexandar Tomov

#44. One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.

Ng Yi-Sheng

#45. All because I fell in love with a madman.

Carrie Butler

#46. There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.

Charles J. Shields

#47. I will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way which thou camest. 'Destroyer' thou hast embraced, and Abaddon shalt thou be. From the furnace of the Kiln wast thou taken and to the furnace of Hell shalt thou return.

Donovan M. Neal

#48. The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly!

Bob Bello

#49. It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character."
"I don't even know what that is!"
"Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction.

Girl Vs Monster

#50. It's nice to be nice.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#51. Hades cracked his knuckles on each hand, and the noise was like gunpowder caps exploding in the silence. "First dish duty," he mumbled to himself, "now possessed cowboys. This just isn't my night.

Josh Strnad

#52. An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to future catastrophe.

Kelly Steed

#53. We are all of the same substance, the same life. Though there are many differences between us, those are merely the shadows that delineate our boundaries. Our light is the same.

Sally Wiener Grotta

#54. Matt shrugged. It was a good shrug, too. All it was missing was a beret, a stripy shirt and a Gauloise cigarette.

D.C. Farmer

#55. You sit beside the sorcerer, your love, and unzip your ribs. Tucked under your heart is a small oak box, plain and unvarnished. You offer it to the sorcerer. 'I brought this for you.

A. Merc Rustad