1. “The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.”
2. “No trilogy should have more than four books.”
3.” To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and hopefully better than the present. Although I know that most - that many science fiction writings have been anti-utopias. And the reason for that is that it's much easier and more exciting to write about a really nasty future than a - placid, peaceful one.”
4. “I don't think there are any secrets to writing in the - everybody has their own techniques.”
5. “You must be widely read, that's one thing, because you have to resolve a tremendous amount of background information. Also, you should know what the competition is writing, just so you're not wasting your time doing the same thing. Unless you do it better, of course.”
6. “A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least an understanding of science, not necessarily a science degree but you must have a feeling for the science and its possibilities and its impossibilities, otherwise you're writing fantasy.”
7. “I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.”
8.” The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
9. “Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be?"
10. “As you see, I did a lot of brainstorming.”
Author C. Clark
Arthur Charles Clarke was born December 16th, 1917, Minehead, Somerset, England, UK, and died March, 19th, 2008, Colombo, Sir Lanka. He was a British author of Science Fiction, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. His works include 2001: A space Odyssey, Rendezvous with Rama, The City and the Stars, The Songs of Distant Earth, and many more. He won many awards during his life, and was considered one of The Big Three of Science Fiction beside the likes of Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. Clark is one of the great writers of our age. His imagination and understanding of science gave him the vision to see to far into the future and predict many things with accuracy. He is truly one of the great writers of all time. He was the last of The Big Three and when he died the world mourned his lose. He created a legacy that will go far into the future and inspire people for decades to come.
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