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Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.