The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
Frederik Pohl
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of... →
Dennis Potter
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
Terry Pratchett
Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.
Francine Prose
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau