Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened..
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world..
Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived th….
Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand u….
You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you….
I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come in as the author an….
I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out. I'm ready. I'm ready to br….
Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time..
It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction..
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step..
Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch..
I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this ser….
Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been somet….
I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death..
Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that ….
Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations..
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens..
I need fiction like you need to eat or exercise..
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts..
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find….
I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life..