Christopher Buckley Quotes

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.

Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.

When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of meaning. I like the playful aspect of writing fiction. You know how it is when we are kids and we make up our worlds: You be this guy, and I am going to be this guy, and we are going to go slay dragons.

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.

Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

The thing with drama is you're allowed to invent people who are maybe slightly better than real people.

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

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.

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting.