Ray Bradbury Quotes

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

I like sci-fi.

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

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.

There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.

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

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.