Danielle Trussoni Quotes

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

Science fiction is not formulaic.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.

Fantasy and science fiction are my comfort spot.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.

The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.