A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as diffi….
Truth is not always injured by fiction..
The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very ….
I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact..
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics..
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget..
Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds..
Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, ….
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real..
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It….
As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten..
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, y….
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness..
I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very l….
The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty..
There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? -….
The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being..
Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story..
I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and….
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult th….