Science Writing Quotes
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In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.
— Geoff Ryman
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
— L. Ron Hubbard
May it be written. May it be done.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Today, however, we know that writing, at least science writing, is partly a skill. And skills can be improved. The pain can be reduced.
— Michael L. Rosenzweig
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.
— Herbert C. Brown
A library is more precious than a bank.
— Abhijit Naskar
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
— Aleksandar Hemon
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
— Cory Doctorow
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
— Octavia Butler
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
— Frederik Pohl
Good writing isn't a science. It's an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.
— David Foster Wallace
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.
— Charles M. Blow
Science Fiction has always attracted more talented writers than it could reward adequately.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)
— Brandon Sanderson
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.
— Paul Di Filippo
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
— Ian Hickson
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?
— Gian-Carlo Rota
Even when I'm writing about shape shifters and magical lands, I'm looking into my own heart.
— Kay Kenyon
As a woman writing SF, I felt I had to think and write like a man in order to be taken seriously.
— Heidi Ruby Miller
My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.
— Margaret Atwood
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
— Rudolf Virchow
Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.
— Edwin Boring
When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.
— Kevin James Breaux
Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
— L. Ron Hubbard
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.
— Bruce Sterling
Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.
— Abhijit Naskar
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.
— Augustus De Morgan
Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships ...
— Margaret Atwood
You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.
— Paul Lauterbur
General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.
— Martin Rees
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality.
— Scott Westerfeld
Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.
— George Henry Lewes
I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world.
— Kay Kenyon
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
— A.C. Grayling
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
— Rupert Sheldrake
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
— Nigel Kneale
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
— Jane Espenson
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
— Paul Di Filippo
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
— Neil Gaiman
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
— Daniel Keys Moran
You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.
— Endre Szemeredi
There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman.
— Alexander Ferrick
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
— Paul Di Filippo
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