Quotes About Fiction

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan, but I still think there is a lot of anime that is crazier than 'Harry Potter,' and that was a seven-book masterpiece.

I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.

I've grown up being obsessed by 'Harry Potter.'

I'm also a huge nerd and love magic, especially 'Harry Potter.'

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

Cross-pollination and 'contamination' is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.

I had been contemplating working on fiction show for some time and 'Humsafars' seemed like the perfect choice.

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.

In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

That's the best way to practice law, is writing about it and not having to be in the courtroom!

By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.

I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.

You start to fall in love with characters as you work with them, and anytime that you care about your characters and you realize that you're gonna have to kill them, that fear creeps in. It's sad. It's scary, and it's also sad. Because you like these people.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.