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Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.
The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.
I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of fiction.
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.
Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it.
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.
Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.
A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.
[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience.
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen
[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex.
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.
I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.