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While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction. — Laurence Yep

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

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. — Paul Di Filippo

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

Good science fiction has its roots in good science. — Dan Brown

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

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. — Marshall McLuhan

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

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works. — Tad Williams

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

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book. — Bill Bryson

Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships ... — Margaret Atwood

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion. — Alan Lightman

To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No. — John Scalzi

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

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science. — Janna Levin

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. — Thomas B. Macaulay

True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul — Kunal Jajal

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

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. — Adam Savage

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

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess

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

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction. — Damon Knight

If I can keep writing just one good page a day, I will have 15 published novels in my expected lifetime. Tick, tick, tick... — Barry James Hickey

I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books. — T.S. Wieland

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! — Terry Pratchett