17 Quotes by John Thomas Sladek

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

We didn’t have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn’t have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library – and anyway, I told myself stories.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I’m sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

I usually like whatever I’ve recently finished best.

Whatever I’m reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I’m writing.