Norman Spinrad Quotes

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

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

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

I quite enjoy science fiction.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

I like sci-fi.

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space.

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

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

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.