“Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?”

Source: Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (1984), p. 1

Robot Dreams (1986), introduction
General sources

mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.
"Introduction" to the French edition (1974) of Crash (1973); reprinted in Re/Search no. 8/9 (1984)
Crash (1973)

Boston Book Review interview by Harvey Blume http://www.dorislessing.org/boston.html (February 1998)

"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)

Orbit interview (2002)

Source: Broca's Brain (1979), Chapter 9, “Science Fiction—A Personal View” (p. 166)

Source: The Canterbury Tales