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Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum
The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.
I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.
As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.
In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.
My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!
I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'
The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.
It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.
The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.
To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.
I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.
In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.
Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.