I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I d….
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction..
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers..
I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college..
Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas..
I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only meas….
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to have access to, their m….
I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my ….
I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past..
I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it..
When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think..
I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified….
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock..
This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent scienc….
I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor..
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety..
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir..
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff..
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction..
Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished..
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..