Mark Sheppard Quotes

It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

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

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

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.

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 was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

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.

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.

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.

Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.

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.

I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

Genre is great and I love sci-fi.

I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.

The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children's cartoons got its start inside the inspired, disruptive halls of science-fiction and fantasy literature.

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

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

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

I loved fantasy role play.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.