“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.”

“If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.”

“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.”

“When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.”

“The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals.”

“Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by someone who knew only fictions, The Tempest as written by isolate Miranda, raised on the romances in her father's library.”