Mae Whitman Quotes

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

I read the newspapers avidly; it is my one form of continuous fiction.

When I'm absorbed in a work of fiction, time and place melts away, as though I've drifted away from my usual reality and been absorbed into another.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

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.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.

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.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

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.

As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

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

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

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

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.

I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

I get transported when I read books.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.