David Selby Quotes

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.

I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

Tolkien didn't just write 'The Hobbit,' he created a whole world.

I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

It seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I'm sitting there conceiving a story, they just pop up.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

Because I grew up on 'Star Wars', that was the best example of creating a full and rich world to me as a writer. When I was watching those movies as a kid, I wanted to know more about every damn character in that universe. There was always a hint that there was a story there that you just weren't getting to see.

Fantasy is a demanding genre.

When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

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.

'Fire and Hemlock' is the reason I'm a writer.

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

My college roommate gave me her copy of 'Lord of the Rings,' and I read that probably five or six times - not because I think it's the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is - but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.