Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

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

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

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

Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

I like sci-fi.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

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.

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

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

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one of my earliest interests as a writer, and I've just taken a long time to circle back around to it.

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.

Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

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.

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 is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary importance. Science fiction tends to be more about the science, or the invention of the fantasy world, or the political allegory. When I left science fiction, I said "They're more interested in planets, and I'm interested in people."

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.