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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 kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless 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 cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 love historical 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 think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

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

I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.