Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction after all has to make sense.

Truth is stranger than fiction but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

In this choice as I look back over more than half a century I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

I read everything: fiction history science mathematics biography travel.

Travel books are by and large boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact fiction and autobiography.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment caused by nature or the universe or technology what readers want to see is how people cope and so the character are present to cope or fail to cope.