Jean M. Auel Quotes

I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.

I think it's really hard to draw a hard-and-fast line and say 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' doesn't count as science fiction or fantasy. Or at what point do we say mythology is not fantasy, so reading mythology when you're young does not count as an exposure to fantasy?

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

I've read everything that Isaac Asimov ever wrote, for a start. I'm massively into my fantasy genre, anything by R.A. Salvatore or David Gemmell. I've read every single book those writers have written.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it.

I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff.

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us.

As a kid, I didn't drift into the comic world too much because I preferred to read fantasies novels and science fiction.

I wouldn't necessarily consider myself the typical sci-fi genre fan. I do have a lot of sci-fi shows that I enjoy, but I wouldn't call it my favorite genre of all.

I read 'The Hobbit' when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. I followed it up with 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I still reread from time to time, but of the lot of it, I prefer 'The Hobbit.'

Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

I still tend to read more urban fantasy and romance than science-fiction, but every once in a while, a couple of books will come along and knock my socks off.

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

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

I love science fiction - always have.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.

I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.