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...
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.
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.
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...
