Connie Willis Quotes

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

I've been enthralled by deep vistas of space and time ever since watching George Pal's film of 'The Time Machine,' while an early encounter with Arthur C. Clarke's 'The City And The Stars' cemented my love for books with a scope spanning millions of years.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

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

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Science fiction can be very relevant, could be good literature.

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

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

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

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

I like sci-fi.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

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 believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

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.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

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

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.