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

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

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.

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

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

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

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

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

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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