Quotes About Literature

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Nice passion is reading

I don't read 'chick lit, ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

A novel is a bridge from one heart to another. - Anon

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.