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If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says "I don't like science-fiction movies," or "I don't want to sit through a Western," or "I don't like violence in movies," then I completely tune out.

If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but thats a little way off yet.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.

I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male dominated field from the outside, but from the inside what we know, those of us who read it, is that women buy the most crime fiction, they are by far the biggest readers of true crime, and there's a voracious appetite among women for these stories, and I know I feel it - since I was quite small I wanted to go to those dark places.

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself, I wanted us to be included in the popular mainstream of entertainment fiction.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so fed up with the world of fiction, which is so money-centered.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t quite of the real world.

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

I have been writing mainly fiction. Occasionally there will be a song that hangs around the truth a little more than the rest, but even with those I end up fudging the facts just to keep it from going stale.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people.

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

I just love historical fiction.