“As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a ...” — Daniel H. Wilson Quote

“As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.”

“Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.”

“And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.”

“I don't very often read novels.”

“I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.”