Orson Scott Card Quotes

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

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

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

I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.

We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home shelf, my homeland, my home planet, my essential genre.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

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

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 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.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

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

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

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

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.

I'm particularly fond of sci-fi and fantasy genres.

I have a long love of fantasy and science-fiction.

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.