imaginative concepts Quotes

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.

Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.