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Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's what I had wanted to be for my entire life, since I can remember, since my particular time immemorial. It's how I got my start as a writer.

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?

Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.

Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.