Neil Gaiman Quotes

I was really interested in doing a really science fiction-based story because it's something I feel like I hadn't done yet.

I don't read Science Fiction.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Science fiction is not formulaic.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction.

Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I'm writing about.

Sci-fi gives you the scope to do grand stories.

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

I love science fiction films.

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one of my earliest interests as a writer, and I've just taken a long time to circle back around to it.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.