If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.