Mekhi Phifer Quotes

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.

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

It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

Science fiction is boring when someone starts explaining the science to me.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

I loved fantasy role play.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

I loved the world of imagination.

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

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 think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.

I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I ever tried to write were Godzilla fan fiction when I was in elementary school, complete with elaborate maps of Monster Island made with multiple sheets of typing paper and nearly six feet wide. I kind of wish I still had those.

I know I'm not creating transcendent works that will someday be taught in college. All I do is entertain. I try to entertain others by sending them into another world for a few hours. When I see my books read on the beach, the pages dabbed with suntan lotion, then I feel as if I've done my job.

Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life.