Blow Quote by William Finnegan

Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

— Warren Spector

If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly…

— Fred D'Aguiar

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

— Ann Brashares

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

— Mary Kay Andrews

It takes no guts to be skeptical, it takes guts to believe.

— Charles Michael Davis

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath…

— Christopher Rice

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done…

— Adam Savage

In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.

— Rachel Kushner

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

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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

— Brent Spiner