Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.

Listen, I am such a nerd. I'm not one of those girls that goes, 'Ha, ha, hee, hee. I'm a nerd.' No, no, no - my brain mentality is the same as a 12-year-old little boy. The video games that I play, the things that I like to watch - I'm a Trekkie.

I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to Middle Earth. 'Dungeons & Dragons' was a huge influence.

Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.

I'm a wall to wall geek. I love sci fi; I've had a crush on Spider-Man since I was five years old, and there's an uncomfortably large shelf in my living room just for my comics.

I love 'Battlestar Galactica;' I was a geeky kid. I was into Dungeons and Dragons. I had the 24-sided dice.

I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.

Sci-fi fans are eccentric.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings.

I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?

I'm like a geek that grew up playing with Star Wars toys and creating action sequences, essentially, with toys.

I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.

I read anything and everything. Comfort food for my brain is fantasy fiction or science fiction.

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

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

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.

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.