125 Quotes by Robert J. Sawyer

Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others, like me, have backgrounds in science and technology journalism.

Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.

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

I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.

Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.

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.

Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.