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I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

"I thought Indians built fires with fiction." .... "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster.

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to show that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning is heating the atmosphere. It is all a fiction.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge. Our living experience at those meeting points is one of the charged dramatic fields of fiction.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to write truth without being wedded to fact.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.

I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm relatively indifferent about, just because I'm not educated on it, if I go to someone who is educated about it and is passionate about it. I find a point of fiction and then give it to them.

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has).

It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction.

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories, anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun too!

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

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

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