Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink..
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in m….
I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it..
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction..
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless..
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, w….
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings..
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm such ….
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth..
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction..
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story..
My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me..
Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature..
I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long ….
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives..
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking..
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations..
The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, en….
Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass..
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that….
You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions..