John Sladek Quotes

American - Author December 15, 1937 - March 10, 2000

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

John Sladek

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

John Sladek

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

John Sladek

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

John Sladek

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.

John Sladek

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.

John Sladek

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.

John Sladek

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

John Sladek