Quotes About Fiction

I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

I think women love to read love stories.

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.

[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by a novel.

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.