Quotes About Fiction

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

I like fantasy.

You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of fiction.

I've always been much more comfortable with drawing fantasy stuff.

Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.

If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream up, that feels far away from me.

The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo.

There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of young-adult or commercial fiction.

Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.

I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

One of the most interesting female characters I've written about was Meg Riddoch, the lead character in 'The Thompson Gunner'.

I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

I know how to write fiction well.