Mary E. Pearson Quotes

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

An independent member means a member who cannot be depended upon.

I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s and '50s. I've also written stories that are very high fantasy that are the direct opposite of that style.

I often compare my voice to an old car you're only 50% sure will turn on when you need it to.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

My weeks tend to differ pretty dramatically.

I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!

The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott.

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.

I'm a huge sci-fi/fantasy/horror guy. I love anything in the sci-fi or fantasy genre.

Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.

I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was 'The Timber Toes.' I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

I don't read Science Fiction.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.