Quotes of: Pulp-fiction Keyword

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Chris Carter

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

China Mieville

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

Faran Tahir

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

Ivan Reitman

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Jack Vance

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Margaret Atwood

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

Paul Krugman

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

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Rudy Rucker

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

Ridley Scott

Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.

Sherwood Smith

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

Terry Pratchett

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Vernor Vinge

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

Neil LaBute

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.

Ray McKinnon

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Aleksandar Hemon

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

William Gibson

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true abo...

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fict...

Anita Brookner

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does conc...

Arthur C. Clarke