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Dystopian Quotes
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
Samantha Shannon
All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Science
You
Man
People
Definitions
Dystopian
Fought
Hidden
Inequity
Meanings
Rocket
Science Fiction
Ships
Come
Fiction
Kind
Must
Put
Terms
Want
Where
Write
Writer
Writing
The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a smart computer will create its own goals and have its own will and will use its faster processing abilities and deep databases to beat humans at their own game.
Oren Etzioni
Simple
Intelligence
Game
Goals
AI
Assumes
Autonomy
Computer
Databases
Dystopian
Faster
Humans
Popular
Processing
Simple Reason
Vision
Ability
Beat
Create
Deep
Own
Reason
Smart
Use
Will
Wrong
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
Maggie Stiefvater
Death
Culture
Where
Dystopian
Concern
Enamored
Escapism
Violent
Fiction
Lived
Major
Would
I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.
Lauren Oliver
Reflection
Think
Dystopian
I Think
Current
Fears
Futures
Also
That's what 'Star Trek' was: We don't know how to make an ideal society, but we're going to portray that, and then we're going to work backward. I think that's why science fiction - despite the dystopian parts - comes out of this super ideal that, eventually, we will get to some better place where we actually live up to our ideals.
Margot Lee Shetterly
Our social fabric is sundered. GoFundMe and the other crowdfunding sites that have proliferated since 2010 are an example of what has sprung up in its place, what I have called America's dystopian social net. That is, we now require private solutions to what are public problems.
Alissa Quart
Problems
America
Place
Now
Dystopian
Fabric
Net
Require
Sites
Social Fabric
Solutions
Sprung
Example
Other
Our
Private
Public
Since
Social
Up
Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.
Lauren Oliver
Hope
Future
People
Look
Dystopian
Fears
Further
Help People
Novels
About
Always
Even
Help
Like
Might
Process
Show
The kind of dystopian books that I've always loved the most are the ones where you find yourself in a world that's less scorched-earth and instead a world that has just been made different.
Laura van den Berg
You
World
Yourself
Always
Dystopian
Been
Books
Different
Find
Instead
Just
Kind
Less
Loved
Made
Most
Where
Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Science
Words
Feel
Sometimes
Babes
Connotations
Dystopian
Horrible
Label
Rocket
Science Fiction
Ships
Because
Fiction
Hard
I Feel
I Feel Like
Like
Something
Those
Trying
Use
Very
I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media's coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don't know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story.
Suzanne Collins
If you're an activist trying to do something important, I salute you. Most of us just give ourselves ethical brownie points for watching Channel 2 instead of Channel 3, like characters in a broad dystopian satire.
Frankie Boyle
You
Important
Like
Trying
Activist
Broad
Channel
Dystopian
Ethical
Points
Salute
Satire
Characters
Give
Instead
Just
Most
Ourselves
Something
Us
Watching
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What tends to happen when people talk about Chinese sci-fi in the West is that there's a lot of projection. We prefer to think of China as a dystopian world that is challenging American hegemony, so we would like to think that Chinese sci-fi is all either militaristic or dystopian. But that's just not the reality of it.
Ken Liu
World
People
Reality
Think
Challenging
China
Chinese
Dystopian
Hegemony
Prefer
Projection
Sci-Fi
Tends
West
About
American
Either
Happen
Just
Like
Lot
Talk
Would
I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'
Alexander Skarsgard
World
Brave
New
Always
Brave New World
Dystopian
New World
Novels
Orwell
Been
Interested
Like
Obviously
Those
When I first read Margaret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale,' it was Saudi Arabia as I knew it that came to mind, not a dystopian future United States as in the new television adaptation.
Mona Eltahawy
Future
Mind
New
First
Adaptation
Arabia
Dystopian
Handmaid
Margaret
Novel
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Tale
Came
Knew
Read
States
Television
United
United States
Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.
Anne Fortier
Future
Power
Always
About
Dystopian
Realm
Shown
Tempting
Fiction
Force
Full
Our
Set
State
Stories
Where
Within
Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.
John Twelve Hawks
Believe
Fiction
Dystopian
Write
Fantasies
Although
I Write
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
Lois Lowry
Science
Never
Fantasy
Literature
Dystopian
Fiction
In Fact
Interested
Particularly
Reader
Science Fiction
Been
Fact
Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.
Naomi Alderman
Women
Down
Make
Grind
Alert
Dystopian
Feminist
Realities
Suddenly
Thinkable
Unthinkable
Fiction
Lives
Writers
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
Lauren DeStefano
Future
World
Society
Present
Contemporary
Dystopian
Paints
Puts
Twist
Classic
Could
Happen
Most
Much like dystopian and post-apocalyptic books are a way to explore the worst-case scenarios lurking around the corner, fantasy can serve as a wonderful tool for showing kids that they have an inherent power in them to create change, both in themselves and in their community.
Alexandra Bracken
Change
Power
Community
Way
Corner
Dystopian
Explore
Fantasy
Inherent
Lurking
Scenarios
Showing
Tool
Around
Books
Both
Create
Kids
Like
Much
Serve
Them
Themselves
Wonderful
I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.'
John Lithgow
You
Look
Walking
Dead
Around
Days
Dystopian
Entertainment
Era
Games
Hunger
Hunger Games
Landscapes
Percent
Seeing
Walking Dead
Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
Tad Williams
Technology
Believe
Society
Will
Danger
Disconnected
Drastically
Dystopian
Orwell
Repressed
Gets
Grow
Harder
Idea
Itself
Like
Unless
At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future.
George Takei
Positive
Future
Society
Vision
Affirmative
Civilization
Core
Dystopian
Gene
Human Civilization
Shining
Star
Star Trek
Trek
View
About
Had
Having
He
Human
Much
If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.
Jonny Greenwood
Future
Music
People
Think
Bizarre
Boxes
Dystopian
Electricity
Instruments
Involving
About
Get
I Think
Imagine
Making
Modern
Often
Out
Playing
Some
Taking
Them
Thing
Very
I think of dystopian as 'Mad Max,' as 'Book of Eli,' as the world is ending.
Tyra Banks
World
Think
Book
Mad
Dystopian
Ending
Max
I Think
I'm a huge fan of dystopian films. I collect them in my brain.
Brittany Howard
Brain
Fan
Dystopian
Them
Collect
Huge Fan
Films
Huge
I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
Maggie Grace
Think
Mistakes
Guilt
Big
Bleak
Developing
Dystopian
Futures
Globally
Sci-Fi
Become
Creating
Deal
Films
How
I Think
Made
Rather
Some
Very
It's a dystopian world where things aren't connected. But life feels light when we can communicate, joke or laugh on ourselves.
Ashish Vidyarthi
Life
Light
World
Laugh
Communicate
Connected
Dystopian
Joke
Feels
Ourselves
Things
Where
My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.
Jess Row
You
Fear
World
People
Altered
Divided
Dystopian
Expression
Privilege
Racial
Surgery
About
Afford
Becomes
Between
Class
Common
Greatest
Kinds
Society
Then
Truly
Which
Who
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