The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.
With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.
As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.
My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write fiction effectively for about three or at the most four hours. No big mysteries, I just sit down and try to advance the cause a little bit every day.
I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.
I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.
Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of aliveness that came from writing fiction. I'm still that way. My life is worth living when I've completed a good paragraph.