Any Quote by Ruth Ozeki

I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.

— Ann Brashares

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world

— Brent Spiner

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

— Mary Kay Andrews

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

— Danai Gurira

I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.

— Andy Muschietti

My worlds are complex, and often suggest more than one story.

— C. J. Cherryh

Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.

— Laura van den Berg

I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different…

— Jennifer Egan

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world…

— Orson Scott Card

My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination…

— Norman Lock

In that way, any world you create will become real. The reader makes it so. The reader becomes implicated in the creation of the…

— Pinckney Benedict

I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

— Greg Berlanti