Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

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.