Anything Quote by Graham Swift

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

— Graham Swift

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want…

— Ransom Riggs

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

“Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic works best…

— Brandon Sanderson

I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.…

— Alan Lightman

I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories.

— Seanan McGuire

I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard…

— Jay Neugeboren

I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and all this…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding…

— Sean Bean

I am touched by my readers who loved my books. All the stories are true incidents in life. Now I have realised, any amount…

— Sudha Murty

The joy of great fiction is that it transports the reader to another world, where new characters live in otherwise unimaginable ways. It is…

— Neal Katyal