Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
Jean M. Auel
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
Paul Auster
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.
Blake Bailey
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
David Baldacci
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
J. G. Ballard
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed... →
John Banville
With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
Rick Bass
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
Jean Baudrillard