Deborah Ann Woll Quotes

The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and playing that, but being able to start from scratch, to completely build the character and this world, I love that.

When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of meaning. I like the playful aspect of writing fiction. You know how it is when we are kids and we make up our worlds: You be this guy, and I am going to be this guy, and we are going to go slay dragons.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

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.'

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

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.

There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.

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

I don't look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That's how I look at it.

You live vicariously through your characters.

Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream up, that feels far away from me.

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

I've always toyed around with creating over-the-top lady characters in my head.

Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.

I'm just a story teller.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.