Fiction is an improvement on life.
Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in scienc….
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism..
That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is..
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin..
Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction..
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything..
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with se….
I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction..
In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole ….
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction..
To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated..
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction..
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion..
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry..
"I thought Indians built fires with fiction." .... "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster….
Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex..
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books c….
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy wr….
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world..
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings..