We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.
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 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'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.
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.
