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Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

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