Markus Zusak Quotes

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

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes, and death are mere options, subject to the writer's fancy.

I liked to pretend a lot. I thought I could be anything that I wanted.

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.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

I loved the world of imagination.

Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

I don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That's what children do, and that's what CGI enables us to do.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

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

Movies are different from real life.

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.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

I have a lot of fantasy.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

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

My Hollywood is a place where anything can happen, where dreams can become reality, and reality often morphs into fiction. It's a place where people's day jobs create magic.

My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom.