Quotes About Imagination

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

Science is not addressed to poets.

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

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.

Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all 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.

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.