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Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

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.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

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

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.