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..
The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had..
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe..
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth..
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction..
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster ….
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction..
People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives..
It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious proc….
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction..
Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as models for the essay. And i….
Good fiction creates its own reality..
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of ….
Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees..
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..
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse..
A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development..
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway..
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction..
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning..
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with s….