There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was….

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible..

I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male dominated field from the outside, but fr….

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction..

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision..

I've only read fiction, so I don't know anything actual.

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kin….

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction..

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autob….

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way..

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science ficti….

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses….

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously ….

The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 8….

I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly or good sometim….

Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in th….

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them..

I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right han….

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction..