Richard K. Morgan Quotes

I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.

I think I have a God complex, and I like moving mountains and writing stories that affect entire worlds, and it's a bit hard to do that in a contemporary setting because you have reality intruding. Whereas, when you set your own reality, you can make up your own rules and do whatever you like.

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of fiction.

You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.

For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.

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.

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

I never thought I could write fiction.

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

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.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

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.

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

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

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

Most fiction comes from your experience.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

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

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.