In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one..
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were co….
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel..
Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!.
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly..
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction..
I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid..
I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xan….
When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot..
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and ….
Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals..
Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism..
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact..
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction..
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish….
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction..
Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team..
People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction..
No one in life can ever match fiction.
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction..