Rupert Holmes Quotes

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

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

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.

I loved the world of imagination.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

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

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

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.

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.

The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.

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.

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

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.

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.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.