“Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”
Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena
Source: Letters to Milena
“Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.”
Penguin Science Fiction (1961) Introduction
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“we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.”
Stephen King book Danse Macabre
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“Every love story is a ghost story.”
David Foster Wallace book The Pale King
Source: The Pale King (2011)
“I write fantasy. The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened. <br class="br"> A Conversation with Ray Bradbury - Point Loma Nazarene University, Writer's Symposium By The Sea; April, 2001 http://www.cosmolearning.com/videos/a-conversation-with-ray-bradbury-2001-1131/
“Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.”
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)
“Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "Kevin Malone", p. 355
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Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 156