I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact..

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness..

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen.….

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in thei….

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds..

No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, ….

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they re….

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth..

Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes..

The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some….

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel..

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form..

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction..

Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK..

Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead god….

If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction anymore. And I share that fa….

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction..

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists..

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors..

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be al….

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil..