Quotes About Fiction

I don't discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I've given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.

I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and I believe it personally.

The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is 'political fiction.'

The idea of a Frankenstein-like creature is something I've done several times. It's such an icon of the horror scene.

You can't identify 100% with your character.

I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for escapism or things like that, you want to read about characters you can identify with.

I identify in some measure with each of my characters.

Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or illogical extreme.

Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen.

I did have an imaginary girlfriend.

I'm asked all the time, 'Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?' And the answer to that is, 'No.' It's sort of a loss to stop a 10-year project, which is an imaginary project in the sense that it's a work of my imagination.

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel.

I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is.

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.