The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scene….

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal..

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me..

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life..

The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me.….

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old..

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it..

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, bu….

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram..

Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex..

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary..

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it..

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another….

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real..

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination..

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all..

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story….

Fact and fiction are different truths..