"Fiction is the lie that helps us understand…" — Tim O'Brien

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• I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or… — J. J. Abrams
• The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself… — Paul Auster
• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but… — Isaac Asimov
• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov
• Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is… — Kate Atkinson
• Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
• Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
• Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. — Margaret Atwood
• Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood
• All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which… — Margaret Atwood
• Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and… — Margaret Atwood
• I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter… — Margaret Atwood

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