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I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.