Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

I love building out the worlds of my fiction with fictional books.

The joy of great fiction is that it transports the reader to another world, where new characters live in otherwise unimaginable ways. It is one of the most powerful ways of generating empathy that I know.

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you should push yourself to try to persuade your reader that you have the authority to engage with people who, you know, lived in the past, who live in the future, other genders, other places, other cultures.

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

To write a story is to create a world of your own.

I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.

I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.

Genre is great and I love sci-fi.

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues.

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.