Terry Pratchett Quotes

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

As an SF writer, you've got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal.

Can't get my head around sci-fi or fantasy. I'm not putting those genres down; it's just that I'm not built for them.

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

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

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.

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.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

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.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

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.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.

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

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.