Jules Verne Quotes

The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

I like going back and writing fiction.

While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. 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.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.

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

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.