Quotes About Fiction

The Marvel characters are all very, very rich.

I've always been a DC guy, but I also like Marvel.

I reread a lot. I must have read 'The Once and Future King,' 'Watership Down' and Mary Renault's 'Theseus' books at least a dozen times each.

I love stories like 'The Terminator' movies and 'The Matrix,' where our machines become self-aware and turn on us.

I have enjoyed all mediums; in fiction you are performing in front of a camera, there is no live audience.

The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

When people reach out to me and say they relate to me through my characters, that's also a reward of a kind.

Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs.

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.'

I liked 'The Sun Also Rises.'

You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.

I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.

'American Drifter''s romance was inspired by a dream I had.

I'd be a rubbish policewoman in real life.

Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it.

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then go beyond it and change it and mutate it.

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

I like sci-fi that is not entirely impossible.

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.