Every year, I think of Worlds as the big meet, but now, it's the Olympics. I'm blessed to even have the opportunity to think about it and work for it.
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.
When I watch a movie, I want to be taken away into worlds that are beyond my imagination.
In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is what you worship as God ... and earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.
Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.
Why change the world? Change worlds!
We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple.
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees.
My worlds are complex, and often suggest more than one story.
We are in a waking dream... We see worlds where others scheme.
But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.
We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
There's so many different worlds.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.
Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.
