Ray Bradbury Quotes

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

Science fiction and fantasy feels like it's been ascending in the zeitgeist.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

I'm a genre writer - I chose to be one, I ended up one, I still am one, and I'm not writing transgressive, genre-blurring fiction. I write 'core SF' - it may occasionally incorporate horror or noir tropes, but it's not pretending to be anything other than what it is.

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.

Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.

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

There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You're always the guy who reads that strange stuff.

If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.

As an SF writer, you've got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal.

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

I had never been much of a science-fiction or Buck Rogers fan. I was more interested in what was going on right now than in the centuries to come.

Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.

By no means do we think, 'Oh, it's cool to be a teen mom.' I definitely don't think that it's cool.

When I signed up for 'Dancing with the Stars,' I was nervous. If I threw everything off, there are 10-15 million people watching, and that would be a negative viewpoint of deaf people, and I didn't want that.

The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children's cartoons got its start inside the inspired, disruptive halls of science-fiction and fantasy literature.

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

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.

There is a difference between going under the knife and the stigma.