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Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.
I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.
I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented.
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.
Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day or two.
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
I think if someone could demonstrate to me that fiction did no good, I would still do it, because I think it does good for me.
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.
One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.
Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.
When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.
Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.