Jane Lindskold Quotes

Everything in a story should be credible.

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me.

I want my fiction to seem real.

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.

Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

If you're creating a whole universe, even if it's a universe squeezed into a solar system, you have to use a little bit of sleight of hand.

Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it.

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

When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'

I feel like we've found an interesting little corner of the sandbox here as far as the way we're telling sci-fi stories. I don't think it's limited to sci-fi - I think anything fantastic can co-exist with people you and I know, and not these hyper-real movie people.

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make everything - to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.

In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.