I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

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

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.