If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Matthew Modine

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Edward Albee

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
Fred Saberhagen

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
Rick Moody

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.
Sharon Olds

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
Anita Diament

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.
Jerry Pournelle

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.
George Murray

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.
Regina Spektor

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
Katherine Anne Porter

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
Walter Salles

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.
Ivan Reitman

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
William Hurt

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
Helen Dunmore

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
John McGahern

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
Antonia Fraser

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
Frederik Pohl

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
Frederik Pohl

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
Yancy Butler

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
Daniel Keys Moran