Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau

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

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.
Sigourney Weaver

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
Elizabeth Moon

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
Robert Sheckley

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
David Brin

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
Piers Anthony

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
Roland Emmerich

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.
Tim LaHaye

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
Harvey Pekar

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.
Raymond Queneau

I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
George Stephen

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
Kate Adie