When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.
I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore. . . like, none.
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.
There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.
In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.
I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.
Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but he also develops the characters with satisfying depth. I thoroughly enjoyed this rip-roaring read, and I can hardly wait for the next book.
Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.
There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2. '
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.