Ravi Subramanian Quotes

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.

I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.

You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

If there's a story I absolutely cannot tell without faster-than-light travel, then I am quite prepared to accept it - even though I don't personally believe it is possible.

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

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 would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can account for the leap.

I find fantasy easier to write. If I'm going to write science fiction, I spend a lot more time thinking up justifications. I can write fantasy without thinking as much. I like to balance things out: a certain amount of fantasy and a certain amount of science fiction.

You've got to think of fun stories, and if the fun story happened to have a lesson, that's a great thing. If you build a movie around a lesson, you're in real trouble.

I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.

I write my books never thinking of an actor.

I try to write short novels and leave details out not because I want to be minimalist, but because I think that it enables the readers' creativity and interaction with the book.

I think that fiction has a certain power.

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

As an SF writer, you've got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal.

When you're given the assignment to write, for example, 'Spider-Man,' the concept, characters and environment are all laid out for you. Everything is pre-established, and your sole responsibility as a creator is to craft an exciting, entertaining, hopefully original adventure, to add layers and colors to a canon that already exists.

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular way.

As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me.

You have to write your own story, your own graph and rhythm.