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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have to make sense. It's just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that.

It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was a cliché! It's like my writing a series about Jewish life and casting all of the characters as inside traders.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I entered my teens, I got more into horror and science fiction and wrote a lot of short stories. A literary education complicated things and for many years I wrote nothing but poetry. Then I got back to story-telling.

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really tough to do. It's really difficult to execute. There's often lots of prosthetics, green screen and special effects, and it can get very technical.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

I've always been interested in science fiction

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways that make interior human sense, even when they aren't entirely believable...

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. And it's [World Of Tomorrow] sort of a parody of science fiction at the same time. It's all of the things I find interesting in sci-fi amplified.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.