Andre Aciman Quotes

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

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 kind of write in my own little world.

In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing 'Ready Player One.' I could throw in everything that I love.

As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

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.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.

I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

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

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.