Quotes: Fiction

I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts… It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that’s quite important… truth with fiction.

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.

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.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

A play is fiction – and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it’s a poem, it’s almost written in my head somewhere.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.