A Quote by Seanan McGuire

I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories.

Seanan McGuire

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Seanan McGuire
American - Author
Born: January 5, 1978

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. The more fantastical characters, or fantastical worlds that they inhabit are really fun and allow you, in some ways, to tell stories and reveal things about our lives that would be harder to take, in a more realistic setting.

Michael Sheen

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

Mark Mothersbaugh

When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.

Arthur Slade

I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.

Thom Browne

It's not easy for me as a writer to suspend my disbelief in a fantastical zone. I can do it. But it's more natural for me to write stories that are comic. Or hopefully comic.

Owen King

I always wanted to direct stories that are big scale and fantastical worlds.

Kate Herron

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.

Ransom Riggs

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Neil Gaiman

I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical.

Landon Liboiron

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

John Green

I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

Finn Jones

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

Joss Whedon

I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.

Bryce Dallas Howard

There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's something a little nostalgic about 'Grimm' and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it's a very unique approach to the procedural side of things.

Sasha Roiz

I don't know who they are[my characters] . They're entirely invented characters. Maybe that's how I've been able to write so many books, because there are no boundaries for me. I can write a completely fantastical story like "Swept Away" or "Blinded by the Light" and then a non-comic drama like "Chicxulub" or something like "Birnam Wood" that has autobiographical underpinnings. Why not?