Orson Scott Card Quotes

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

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could.

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

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

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

When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

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.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

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

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.

I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

Genre is great and I love sci-fi.

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.

From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are either set in imaginary worlds or feature the appearance in the familiar world of some imaginary entity.

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

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

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

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

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

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

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.

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.