Stephen King Quotes

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

I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

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

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

The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles and things exploding, you can be JG Ballad and maybe just change one little thing about the real world and that becomes science fiction.

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

I'm a very promiscuous reader. My dad's a big science fiction fan, so I'd read 'Dune,' and 'Watership Down' and 'The Lord Of The Rings.'

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

I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.

I have always been a fan of genre stuff and fantasy and sci-fi.

I have a long love of fantasy and science-fiction.

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.

My idea of a good fantasy is something that's absolutely grounded in reality. And there's a little element that doesn't belong there - and that's the fantasy element - that you have to react to and deal with in a completely real way.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

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

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.

Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.