Nigel Kneale Quotes

I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.

I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.

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.

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly in the mainstream for a while.

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

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

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

I'm a huge fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.

I've never been attracted to sci-fi per se. People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that 'The Matrix' was genre.

I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can.

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.

I'm very fascinated by genre.

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

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

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so, so determined not to write about a 24-year-old journalist. It was going to have male characters, and middle-aged people, so I could say, 'Look, I'm not just writing about my life, I'm a real author.'

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

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.

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.

It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.

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.