Haruki Murakami Quotes

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.

Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

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

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.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

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

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.

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

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

Fantasy is a demanding genre.

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

I love anything that's mythical, and fantasy is one of my favourite genres.

Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.

Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.