I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'
Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
Writing gave me the world.
What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?
I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.