Brit Marling Quotes

A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

I loved the world of imagination.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

I have a lot of fantasy.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.

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.

When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.