H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

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

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

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

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.

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 have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

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.

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.

The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.

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

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.

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

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'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.

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

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 define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction!

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.