Doris Lessing Quotes

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

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.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

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

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

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.

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

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

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

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

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.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

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

I always love some sci-fi and any type of post-apocalyptic world idea.

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

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

I like sci-fi.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.