Top 19 Quotes by 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.

I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don't sit there reading 'New Scientist,' putting post-it notes next to ideas.

I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.