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The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

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.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

I rather like getting away from fiction.

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Palaeontologists use fiction all the time.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

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

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.