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Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.
No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.
If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.
[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.
In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text.
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'
I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.
Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.
There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.
Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes.
There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.
Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.
What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.
Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.
Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.
History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.
A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.
For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.
There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.
Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.