The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely ac….
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance give….
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise..
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies..
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't..
Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?".
I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction..
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history.
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time..
I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. ….
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority..
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin..
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy..
Fiction is always really a labor..
I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life..
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybod….
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It se….
I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian no….
I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!.
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century..
Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counter….