You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.