Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

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

The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.

I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

I loved the world of imagination.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

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

That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can create something from nothing, and suddenly they come to life, like they've always been there.

It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.

I'm very interested in writing an actual series, that doesn't have too much to do with my music - a world I create that has characters in it. I'm just trying to get there by doing things that I want to do.

A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a shape, to turn them into a story.

It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.

As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.

I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before.

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what I love about writing is that journey of discovery where it's all new to me as well.