Top 54 Fictional World Quotes
#1. This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
N.K. Jemisin
#2. Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having been allotted only one life, I find that writing oneself into a fictional world is even more comforting.
Norman Lock
#3. I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.
Frederick Buechner
#4. Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.
Dave Gibbons
#5. Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.
Antonya Nelson
#6. I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.
Lorrie Moore
#7. As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble.
Octavia E. Butler
#8. Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be.
Javier Marias
#9. I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world ... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.
David Guterson
#10. Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
Brent Spiner
#11. When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
Faran Tahir
#12. What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the world that we live in as well. Of course, I cannot control that world. I can just control the fictional world.
Ruth Ozeki
#13. I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.
Zadie Smith
#14. Food is an excellent way to do very elegant worldbuilding - the kind that can make a fictional world seem real, like it extends way past the edges of the frame.
Ann Leckie
#15. It seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I'm sitting there conceiving a story, they just pop up.
Sara Gruen
#16. I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do ...
John Geddes
#17. It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.
William Finnegan
#18. Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited ...
Orson Scott Card
#19. As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
Dinaw Mengestu
#20. 2D looks so flat. Well, it is, of course, it's flat. But 3D isn't. And for an adventure story that takes you into a long-distant, fictional world, it's ideal, I think.
Ian McKellen
#21. The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read has a cameo role in another. I think that recognition is a very, very powerful phenomenon; it is one of the deepest and greatest pleasures of reading.
Paul Harding
#22. That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure - the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! [from the preface; on writing for people around the world]
Alexander McCall Smith
#23. This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that.
Carroll Bryant
#24. Every fictional character is real, they just inherit a different world.
Daniel Schwabauer
#25. Look, Mr. uh, Wulf I appreciate your trying to warn me about this, Ireally do. But there's no such thing as vampires. They're made-up. We writers made them up. I'm sorry we did such a good job that we made the whole world paranoid, but it's true. They're fictional. Blame Bram Stoker. He started it.
Meg Cabot
#26. The world tends toward chaos, you know, Cassidy said. You could too. Just write down a made up name, or even a fictional character. And the next person who finds this geocache, it's as though things really hapened that way. You have to at least allow for the possibility of it.
Robyn Schneider
#27. Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the real one.
Hiroshi Ishizaki
#28. The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Holmes is a brand, like Nancy Drew, in a way, is a brand. When people start listing who are the great fictional detectives, I want Veronica Mars to make that list. That would be the dream scenario.
Rob Thomas
#30. Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.
John M. Ford
#31. Every place you have ever imagined is real.
There's a fictional city in your mind and you know every corner of it.
Your mind is a world and each of us is a place.
Unknown
#32. A writer often wants to change a reader's perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.
Caryl Phillips
#33. Reading had always been my lifeline
an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy ...
Phyllis A. Whitney
#34. We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.
Jeffrey Sachs
#35. If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.
Fred D'Aguiar
#36. Readers the world over are always so let down that Hogwarts and Narnia and Middle Earth don't exist, that they will never be able to visit their favorite fictional places.
E. Lorn
#37. The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.
Louis Theroux
#38. I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
Joel Edgerton
#39. I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival. It's my responsibility to reveal them to the world, to show my readers the names of these things, to show them their histories and stories.
Nicholas Trandahl
#40. Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.
Shannon Hale
#41. Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.
Ann Leckie
#42. When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
Ed Helms
#43. Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.
Jennifer Wilson
#44. The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories
Diane Arbus
#45. Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under their own power?
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#46. We were feeling something they never had - a physical link into the world of the fictional - through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the joystick to the tiny person on the screen, a person in an imagined world. It was crude but real.
Austin Grossman
#47. I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#48. I don't even like horror movies. The world has enough real monsters without creating fictional monsters.
Lisa Renee Jones
#49. How readily and thinly we procure these fictional selves, deceiving the world and what we might have become if only we hadn't got in the way, if only we had waited to see what might have become of us.
Hisham Matar
#50. In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.
Kristin Gore
#51. As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.
Christopher Lee
#52. I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
Ann Brashares
#53. Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.
Dave Gorman
#54. Fantasy? That's for the Fire Birds. Fantasy, even when it takes science-fictional forms, which it often does, is dangerous. It is escapist. It is daydreaming. It has nothing to do with the world and the world's problems.
So said the snobs who did not know themselves as snobs.
Ray Bradbury
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