For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
The truth is that good fantasies carefully limit the magic that's possible. In fact, the magic has to be defined, at least in the author's mind, as a whole new set of natural laws that cannot be violated during the course of the story. That is, if at...
I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to be classified as one, so I wondered in what way I'd offended that I would not get credit for being a serious writer. I decided tha...
There is no fact that is not at least part fiction.
Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.
I like going back and writing fiction.
It's 1am, I have fiction to write!
Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction!
Fiction is the evidence that reality exists
Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
Great fiction is the art of a soul.
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Good fiction makes the truth believable.
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
There is no fact which is not at least part fiction.
Most fiction comes from your experience.
The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
