Quotes About Fiction

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I love books about dysfunctional families.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong." Anyway, it's fiction.

We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

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

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.

There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books.

I don't think anybody deals well with tragedy or grief, but maybe my characters are particularly bad at it. Which is why I love them.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Love is only found in books

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.