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I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.
'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.
One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction.
I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.
If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.
I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.
Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.
Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.
As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.
In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.
Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had.
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.