Quotes About Fiction

I think I started watching 'Trek' in the mid-'70s when I was in elementary school, and I was just into space. Somewhere along the way, I started realizing there were really interesting ideas in the show.

One of my favorite shows when I was a kid was the old 'Star Trek' reruns.

I grew up, from ages 8 to 18, watching reruns of 'Star Trek' with my dad and my mom when they got home from work.

I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction.

The technobabble in 'Trek' just got completely out of control.

I'm not a great 'Star Trek' fan, but I love science fiction.

When you watch 'Alien' you feel that they are touching stuff as opposed to 'Star Trek', where they're clearly not.

The power with which you can create a character is tremendous and probably more satisfying than actually being the person.

Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imaginative life. There's a tremendous richness to that.

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

When a society is really successful like America, throughout history there's been this trend for those societies to be obsessed about end of the world scenarios. You know, about meteorites and plagues and destroying things. And you can see that in the American fiction.

In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.

For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years, I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.

We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe.

Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?''For fun?''Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety.

The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities—the truth isn't.

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact.

Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.

And in my novels I live many lives. Substitutes of spontaneity to replace a dreary reality. How I live for those inky black words and kaleidoscope colored experiences.

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.