It is obvious that an imagined # world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.
That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to the concept of radical constructivism - is that the only thing we can ever know about the real reality (if it even exists) is what it is not. It is only with the collapse of our constructions of reality that we first discover that the world is not the way we imagine.
He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.
Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean.
