Fiction Quotations

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.