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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

A public is a necessary fiction.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.