Olivia Wilde Quotes

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

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

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.

I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.

I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

Someone once said that Sci Fi was the modern Western. What's my favorite? Well, anything that needs a misfit. I don't have a real favorite. My dream is to play something different.

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those themes and try to bring it into a more 21st story with aliens.

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'

It seems to realize itself to be some of the most exciting TV and films that are made. Sci-fi just has that ability.

When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.

The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

I'm a huge sci-fi/fantasy/horror guy. I love anything in the sci-fi or fantasy genre.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.