Terence Winter Quotes

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

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.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

Movies are different from real life.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

I make it all up, and all of it is true.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

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

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.