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I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.
The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world.
When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.
I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.
I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.
The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.
I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.
I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent for many tastes.
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than "The Metamorphosis".
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?
If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.
The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.
I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.
There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.