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I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

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.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.