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If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.
Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.
In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.
Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.
Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.
Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.
The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.
If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.
There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.
One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.
In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.
I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.
Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.
I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.
Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.
I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.
Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.
You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.
People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.