I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“To really be a nerdshe'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds over the real one.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world. — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
2D looks so flat. Well, it is, of course, it's flat. But 3D isn't. And for an adventure story that takes you… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy, though they seem to be about the future or fictional worlds, are always at their core really about… — John Joseph Adams Copy Share Image
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“Fictional worlds are a great place to indulge in unspoken fantasies. . . like writing the dad you never had. . .… — Jc Morrows Copy Share Image
Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Fiction is usually seen as escapist entertainment...But it's hard to reconcile the escapist theory of fiction with the deep patterns we find… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had. — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I have the illusion of being able to control these fictional worlds and these characters, and to make… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
