In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove..

Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things..

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer..

I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient..

Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come ou….

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money..

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How diffe….

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared..

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace..

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen..

A public is a necessary fiction..

Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming..

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human conditi….

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting..

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of ….

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious proc….

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it..

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had..

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you..

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact..

Good fiction creates its own reality..