I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.
We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
I think if someone could demonstrate to me that fiction did no good, I would still do it, because I think it does good for me.
I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness.
It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.
Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns of events, and great insights. Wonderful stories: each one is a trip!
That Hugh Laurie show is nothing but Scrubs fan fiction.
I was always attracted to science fiction movies
I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.
