17 Random Quotes By - Alastair Reynolds

17 Random Quotes By - Alastair Reynoldse

In crime, I like Ian Rankin and James Lee Burke. As for historical books, I enjoy Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brien, and C. S. Forester - anything with battleships!

— Alastair Reynolds

You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to write them. We all have to draw the line somewhere.

— Alastair Reynolds

If there's a story I absolutely cannot tell without faster-than-light travel, then I am quite prepared to accept it - even though I don't personally believe it is possible.

— Alastair Reynolds

I've been enthralled by deep vistas of space and time ever since watching George Pal's film of 'The Time Machine,' while an early encounter with Arthur C. Clarke's 'The City And The Stars' cemented my love for books with a scope spanning millions of years.

— Alastair Reynolds

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

— Alastair Reynolds

I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want to be a scientist. The education system means you have to choose physics or Shakespeare. It can't be both.

— Alastair Reynolds

I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks and crannies.

— Alastair Reynolds

When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.

— Alastair Reynolds

We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West.

— Alastair Reynolds

When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often been because I've been put in the head of one of the characters.

— Alastair Reynolds

Dreams of warp drives and hyperspace are just that - dreams.

— Alastair Reynolds

I've always been attracted to Pertwee's portrayal of the Doctor as dashing man-of-science, charming, sceptical, and rational.

— Alastair Reynolds

For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.

— Alastair Reynolds

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

— Alastair Reynolds

When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being Gene Wolfe.

— Alastair Reynolds

'Doctor Who' is part of my science fictional DNA. You could take it out of me, and I'd probably still have ended up being a writer, but almost certainly not the same one.

— Alastair Reynolds

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.

— Alastair Reynolds

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