Backdrop Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions of food,…

— Sabaa Tahir

As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the world is…

— Neil Gaiman

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole…

— China Mieville

For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage. It is…

— Alix Smith

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

— John Henry Newman

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

— John M. Ford

Some acts of worldbuilding in fiction instantiate a milieu that is so culturally odd and exotic, so displaced from the audience's consensus reality in…

— Paul Di Filippo

Ultimately, you have to meet a realistic setting on screen with some imagination as a viewer, as that is what creates a story.

— Rege-Jean Page

World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if…

— M. John Harrison

What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the world that…

— Ruth Ozeki

Setting can be something that is a major player in a scene, something that makes the mood leap from the page. But if an…

— Kim Smith

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

— Tim Burton