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All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

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.

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.