Quotes About Fictional Worlds

#1. I read for pleasure
In search of fictional worlds
To enrich my truths

A.A. Patawaran

#2. I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.

Leila Aboulela

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

Ann Brashares

#4. We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

Marco Tempest

#5. Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces.

Gad Saad

#6. To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

Erin Morgenstern

#8. She was a monster, but she was my monster.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!

Staness Jonekos

#10. I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Moliere

#11. The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

Rudyard Kipling

#12. There is a wonderful, almost mystical, law of nature that says three of the things we want most - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained when we give them to others.

John Wooden

#13. It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

Lin Yutang

#14. It's an unfortunate reality of being a male dancer that it's not really looked upon ... it's not appreciated.

Sascha Radetsky

#15. Pray ceaselessly.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

Khalil Gibran

#17. I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.

Chris Mars

#18. 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

#19. This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.

Neil Gaiman

#20. Fictional realms are usually terrible places to vacation, as they tend to be full of monsters and conflicts - Narnia and Middle-earth would both be good places to get killed - but I wouldn't mind visiting the worlds of Iain M. Banks's 'Culture.' You'd just have a hard time getting me to leave.

Tim Pratt

#21. Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.

Anne Fortier

#22. Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

Bell Hooks