Jacqueline Carey Quotes

Science fiction and fantasy feels like it's been ascending in the zeitgeist.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

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.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

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.

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.

I read anything and everything. Comfort food for my brain is fantasy fiction or science fiction.

It may not be 'mainstream,' but there's always a market for science fiction.

The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children's cartoons got its start inside the inspired, disruptive halls of science-fiction and fantasy literature.

We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home shelf, my homeland, my home planet, my essential genre.

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

I've written about superheroes. I've written about talking ferrets and math geniuses being chased by madmen. I've written about spies and demon-hunting soccer moms. I've created an entire world that centers around a paranormal judicial system.

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.