You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum
The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.
I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.
One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.
All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that remains for me to this day the line that I know where it's like, OK, you're not writing fan fiction anymore.
I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.
. . . if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing is infinitely harder. Especially with the economics of serious fiction being what they are in America.
A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.
Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.