Destroying Quote by R. Scott Bakker

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

— Will Gluck

I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer.

— Shantel VanSanten

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

— Ntozake Shange

And I desperately needed books that would take me out of my environment and show me a world where being smart and brave and…

— Leigh Bardugo

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

— Jon Ronson

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

— Philip K. Dick

I wanted to create my own world, a world full of color, where everyone could play. One big party that never ends.

— Michael Alig

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

— Alice Walker

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

— Dana Spiotta

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and…

— Richard Powers

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I…

— Amy Plum