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Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now. -- John Noble
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway. -- Nigel Kneale
Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science. -- Janna Levin
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. -- Neil Gaiman
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. -- Cory Doctorow
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building. -- M. John Harrison
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does. -- Daniel Keys Moran
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. -- Octavia Butler
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more. -- Charles M. Blow
General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision. -- Martin Rees
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science. -- Rupert Sheldrake
Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own. -- Pamela Sargent
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means. -- Clifford Geertz
I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion. -- Alan Lightman
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. -- Octavia E. Butler
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. -- Irvine Welsh
The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking. -- Megan Smith
When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did. -- Ted Chiang
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. -- Ray Bradbury
The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. -- Adam Savage
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. -- L. Ron Hubbard
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. -- Aleksandar Hemon
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
[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 really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book. -- Bill Bryson
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means -- Clifford Geertz
My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing. -- Margaret Atwood
A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present. -- Pamela Sargent

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