Quotes About Creativity

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

I always take a fiction break in between business books to keep the content from bleeding together.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Science fiction I've always been a fan of.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

I don't read fiction at all.

I like going back and writing fiction.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

I'm a huge science fiction fan.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I started writing more poetry and working for 'Rookie'.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I'd write 'The Calling' as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me.

I made my own fictional land, which is 'Bell Choir Coast.' It was a response to feeling really, really lost, and it was what I was looking for.