Quotes About World-building

A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want to inhabit.

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 like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.

I am the creator of my world and so are you. We can widen our world by breaking free from the maze of expectations. We can shrink our world by entrapping ourselves with expectations.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

One of my challenges [as a writer] is to make sure that I'm giving the reader details that the character cares about rather than details that I care about. I#d say that's key to world-building.

The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings , is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.

I think of myself as a fantasy writer.

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

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

There's a few things I learned from my experience on 'Hieroglyph.' First of all, I learned that building a world doesn't need to be as expensive as a summer blockbuster. Yeah yeah, newsflash, I know.

The thing that ultimately pushed me more towards 'Aquaman' is I love the possibility of creating a whole new world. I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.

I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'

This page is is a time machine, a teleporter, a magic wand. With it you can create a world. Give life. Take it away.