Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.