Quotes About Fiction

Not a big sci-fi guy.

I have always been a fan of genre stuff and fantasy and sci-fi.

Genre is great and I love sci-fi.

I love Sci-Fi. It's pretty much all I watch.

I am never going to like sci-fi or horror.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

Epic science fiction game, that's always been on my mind. Post-apocalyptic, 'Fallout,' was our first choice. Sci-fi was our second at the time, when we got the 'Fallout' license. We were going to do our own post-apocalyptic universe if we didn't get 'Fallout.'

Seeing the space future through science fiction can be difficult. Much science fiction of the early era, the 1950s through the '70s, took an expansionist view.

Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much about reading or writing today.

I'm a fan of hard science fiction, which is science fiction that is possible.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

I had always secretly wanted to write a novel.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.

When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.

I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.

I only like non-fiction. After 30 pages of fiction, I think: what nonsense are they trying to write.

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction, in a sense.

When I first started writing, I did mostly short fiction, and I'd work on a short story and get near to being done and have no idea what I'd work on next, and then I'd panic.