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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Change Science Art Small

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Stephen Hawking

Science Time Travel Thought

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Truth Truth Is Possibilities Because

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Stanley Kubrick

Music Movies Feelings Meaning

Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

Science Look People World

I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

Science Look Game Think

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Science Today May Science Fiction

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Truth Truth Is Hard Sometimes

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

Steven Spielberg

Science Think Feeling Remember

Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.

Family Birthday Children Character

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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Reality Difference Sense Make

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Good Science Mind Bad

I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Love Truth Emotional Create

Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.

Man Character End Riding

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Science Problems May Inevitable

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

Barbara Kingsolver

Humanity People Own Poet

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor.

Women Truth Truth Is People

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

Truth Hat Rabbit Magician

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

Life Late Never Never Too Late

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

Science New Always Unknown

The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money.

Yuval Noah Harari

Communication Money Believe World

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

Science Me Great Opportunity

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Robert Anton Wilson

Time Ego Blame Person

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.

Science Wisdom Professional Done

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Truth Why Stranger Sense

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Life Truth You True

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