The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.
Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.
As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the first 'Star Wars' movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
I like writing historical fiction.
Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.
I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.'
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
