Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.