The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells Quotes

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. —Ernest Hemingway”
― Ben Bova, The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells

“The term sci-fi, which most science fiction writers loathe, I will reserve for those motion pictures that claim to be science fiction but are actually based on comic strips. Or worse.”
― Ben Bova, The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells

“Science fiction stories are those in which some aspect of future science or high technology is so integral to the story that, if you take away the science or technology, the story collapses.”
― Ben Bova, The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells

“Every writer must bring three major factors to each story that he writes. They are ideas, artistry and craftsmanship.”
― Ben Bova, The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells