Damon Lindelof Quotes

Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create entertaining scenarios that may or may not anticipate future realities.

I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

I love science fiction.

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

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

I love science fiction.

The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

Science fiction is not formulaic.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

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

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

If there's a story I absolutely cannot tell without faster-than-light travel, then I am quite prepared to accept it - even though I don't personally believe it is possible.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

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