If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with se….

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions..

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not..

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story..

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none..

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books c….

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory..

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us..

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, scien….

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different g….

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated..

The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, en….

I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long ….

Fiction is an improvement on life.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written..

In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount..

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry..

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books..

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip,….

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally..

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being wri….