3,834 Quotes About Fiction

The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through.

A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.

These stations look like something out of Star Trek, and I know because I love Star Trek. Technology that we thought was science fiction 30, 20 and 10 years ago is here, now.

It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Something that seemed to be a real trend this summer was the disproportionate strength of non-fiction to fiction,