I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned.
And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is to understand those others who are our fictional characters, somehow to gain entrance to their minds and feelings, to respect them for the...
Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best for fiction. They do not dramatize well. They are, rather, a by-product, something the reader himself is led to formulate after watching the...
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.
I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.
You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
I've always wanted to write science fiction. It was one of my first loves, and I knew if I became a writer someday I'd probably write something in the science fiction vein, but I hesitated for a long while because it's such well-trod ground.
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesti...
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.
The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility ...
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...
