Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.
I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold a medium number of copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a wri...
Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the commas back in the same places. I like that way of working on s...
I’m an observer. I am fascinated by people and how their minds work (and, of course, my own). Why we are the way we are, why we do the things we do – and that interest drives my writing. I was a physicist before fiction claimed my soul, so I’m ...
Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the way we all know things should be—without suggesting that’s how things really are. Good fiction is the mirage th...
There is no hospitality like understanding.
Which came first — the observer or the particle?
I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.
I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
Fiction genres are stranger than fiction, as the saying goes.
Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.
So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.
