Robert J. Sawyer

The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.

We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.

Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, multimedia world - and I'm delighted to be a part of that.

There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You're always the guy who reads that strange stuff.

I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.

Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I've actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles.

What Bradbury had that most other science-fiction writers didn't have at that time was a love for beautiful language, evocative description, and haunting phrases that would stick with the reader.