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The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

There are plenty of characters of color in fantasy and science fiction. But when you ask the question, "How many of them on-screen have rich, thought-out backgrounds and family elements to draw on?," you quickly find out that the answer is not very many.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'

There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women have changed so much. We're so varied. And we've become more interested in the same varied experience in fiction.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.

The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to admire) is about love and death, while mere popular fiction like this is about sex and violence. One reader's sex, alas, is another's love; and one's violence, another's death.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.