Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Famous quotes containing the words science fiction, science, fiction, fantasy, writers and/or america:

“If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other—only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”
—Talcott Parsons (1902–1979)

“... all fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction.”
—Shirley Abbott (b. 1934)

“It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. Everybody has their own America, and then they have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see.”
—Andy Warhol (1928–1987)

“Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.”
—Lorenz Hart (1895–1943)

“The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)