Eyes Quote by Sabaa Tahir

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

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

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

When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does…

— Marie Rutkoski

I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar,…

— Olivo Barbieri

Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.

— Josh Gates

In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

You can do all of the world-building you want; at the end of the day, what's important is the heart and the drive of…

— Mark Waid

I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's…

— Antoine Predock

We all construct worldviews that give us a sense of meaning. Mostly it is about belonging to a group and having a sense of…

— Carmen Lawrence

We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms…

— Sean M. Carroll

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places Ive been.

— James Ransone