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I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

— Richard Matheson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.

— Michael Morpurgo

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

The fantasy world, the 'Game of Thrones' world, the forgotten realms worlds - they're the type of worlds I've always wanted to live in. Where vampires, dragons, dwarves and elves are real.

— Robert Kazinsky

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

— Terry Brooks

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.

— J. A. Konrath

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

— Sadie Jones

I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

— Anne Lamott

✗Opposing Perspectives

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

— Lloyd Alexander

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

— Donald Ray Pollock