Julie Kenner Quotes

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

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.

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

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

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 loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

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.

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

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.

I absolutely adore writing books with paranormal elements - and I love creating the often-complex worlds and/or plots that go along with those stories - but at the heart of all of that, you have the characters, and when you get down to the core of it, it's spending the time with the characters that is what I truly love.

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.

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.

Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

I love writing romance, along with science fiction and fantasy - and my books usually meld all three to some degree.

Science fiction and fantasy feels like it's been ascending in the zeitgeist.

I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world.

Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.

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

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

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

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

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