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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

There are plenty of characters of color in fantasy and science fiction. But when you ask the question, "How many of them on-screen have rich, thought-out backgrounds and family elements to draw on?," you quickly find out that the answer is not very many.

There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979

There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'