James D. Watson Quotes

I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real and recognizable society, I don't understand what to do.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

I don't know exactly how I end up with some of these roles. It mystifies me sometimes, but I am a fan of sci-fi. I love being taken into a strange world, and when it's told with imagination and credibility, I love being taken on that trip. I always have.

I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.

I think it's really hard to draw a hard-and-fast line and say 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' doesn't count as science fiction or fantasy. Or at what point do we say mythology is not fantasy, so reading mythology when you're young does not count as an exposure to fantasy?

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger.

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

Science fiction I've always been a fan of.

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

Just as computer science is missing from our school system, so is science fiction.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

I've always loved fantasy. I've always loved sci-fi. It's not like I can list off my favorite sci-fi shows or movies, but I just love being taken into a different world. I'm a huge fan of Steven Spielberg. I'm a huge fan of George Lucas. I've always loved it.

A lot of science fiction is very accessible and very readable, but a lot of people are justifiably put off by the covers of spaceships - though that never put me off.

Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.

I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can.