Bryan Fuller Quotes

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

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.

Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on. But I don't say to any writer that that's absolutely what they should do.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

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

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.

A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.

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

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

All that I did was to avail myself of the great privileges of the fiction writer, spring over every scientific difficulty with fancy’s seven-leagued boots, and create on paper what other men were planning out in steel and other metals.

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular way.

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.

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.