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If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

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

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

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

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 look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

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 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 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.

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.

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 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 got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

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

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

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

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

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