I read a lot about her. I read a lot of bios. I read bios about the royal family; I read this little novella called 'The Uncommon Reader,' which is a fiction: it's about Queen Elizabeth going on this library bus and choosing books and reading them, but it's so sweet.
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and touchstones employed later by twenty-first-century writers of steampunk, in their contemporary hands these devices represented state-of-the-art speculation.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.
It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.
Comics shouldn't be 'tools' for anyone's agenda except for the characters. And I am speaking only of super hero action comics. I love many of the alternative comics that are like journalistic stories. Documentary comics, a mix of reportage and fiction. Those are just great.
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
I freely admit that I took great license in writing 'The Dark Queen,' more so than my other historical romance novels. This is largely because I viewed the book as a fantasy novel as much as an historical. I do feel that writers should strive for as much accuracy as possible but, in the end, remember that we are writing fiction.
I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.
I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.
I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.
I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.
When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.
Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
