Octavia E. Butler Quotes

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.

I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

I love science fiction.

I love science fiction.

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

I grew up reading science fiction.

It may not be 'mainstream,' but there's always a market for science fiction.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

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.

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

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.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

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

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

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

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.