I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.
I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth. . . that saves the world.
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
Science fiction is the very literature of change.
Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe, it nevertheless is coming out of the deepest recesses of myself.
Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.
It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud.
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.
Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.
I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore. . . like, none.
And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.