'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.
A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
A writer of fiction is really... A congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
Tarzan is a famous fictional character who is raised by apes in African jungles.
Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good.
The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever.
The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.
There's truth and then there's fiction - I think truth does exist and you can present it.
