If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
William H. Gass
I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
Bill Gates
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
Hugo Gernsback
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
Tess Gerritsen
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
William Gibson
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
Mark Haddon
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be... →
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years... →