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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

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

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

Science Fiction has always attracted more talented writers than it could reward adequately. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

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

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

If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012) — Brandon Sanderson

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

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

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

Even when I'm writing about shape shifters and magical lands, I'm looking into my own heart. — Kay Kenyon

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

Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction. — Ian Hickson

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

[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

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

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

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. — Paul Di Filippo

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

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does. — Daniel Keys Moran

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. — Neil Gaiman

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

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

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

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway. — Nigel Kneale

I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world. — Kay Kenyon

I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality. — Scott Westerfeld