And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.