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Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

Canadian - Writer | April 29, 1960 -

I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people.

Robert J. Sawyer

People Learn Understanding You Way

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.

Robert J. Sawyer

Technology Science Me Journalism

You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.

Robert J. Sawyer

Black Universe You Fall Gone Hole

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

Robert J. Sawyer

America Canada Member Guild Writers

You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars was an exciting place.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Imagination Hat Writing You

The single best thing about Mars is the reduced gravity. It's 38 percent of Earth's gravity - about one third. Almost never have you seen that portrayed in film or television. Mars is just portrayed as a place that's got reddish sand but is otherwise pretty much identical to the Mojave Desert, and that's not the case.

Robert J. Sawyer

Best Desert Sand You Place Earth

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.

Robert J. Sawyer

Simple Think Shade Approach Utopian

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

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Name Two Equal Fiction Give

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.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Art Principles Write Hard

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

Robert J. Sawyer

People View Point Of View Real Own

If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited.

Robert J. Sawyer

You Look Country Pretty United Most

The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read science fiction magazines will recognize your byline on a novel.

Robert J. Sawyer

Success Science Yourself People Name

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