I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.
Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.
I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.
Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'
I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.
I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.