Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. Inventing plausible new realities is what the genre is all about. One starts from a hypothesis and then builds out the logic, adding detail and incident to give substance to imaginary structures. In that respect, science fiction and theology have much in common. Lawrence Wright
When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.
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Caitlyn Siehl
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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Lloyd Alexander
If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of...
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Patrick Rothfuss
The treacherous are ever distrustful.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against...
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C.s. Lewis
More Quotes By Lawrence Wright
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.
In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been...
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.
He's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do, maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.
