I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message..
One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to t….
Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage..
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along..
I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fi….
Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense..
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world..
Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting..
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry..
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth..
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that..
Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In nonfiction, particularly that whic….
Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer..
It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they k….
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….
If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to realit….
Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off..
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us..
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile..
I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything..