“We were all exposed to nothing but white dude fiction, occasionally young white women fiction, and if that’s how you’ve grown up, then that is what is normal.”

“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”

“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”

“Fiction is, the art of making up something. That's what it's all about, folks. Making stacks of money.”

“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”

“There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.”

“All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction.”

“What we remember is probably fiction anyway.”

“All of our separate fictions add up to joint reality.”

“Because we write fiction we mine our souls. Of course you put yourself into your fiction, your fiction is you.”