Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the di….
I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none..
There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women have changed so much.….
Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference..
I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach..
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century..
[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being wri….
In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount..
the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality..
All fiction is autobiographical fantasy..
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger..
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is ….
In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally..
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, scien….
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible..
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not..
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is..
If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragrap….
Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in th….
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written..
I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Lo….