“In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.” WorldHeartWholeFictionFieldsBuildingGrewMy HeartGrew UpWhole WorldFantasticDragonsDungeonsDungeons And DragonsBuilding ThingsClose To My Heart Author:China Mieville
“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.” FirstsStatesNationsUnitedPowerfulFictionUnited StatesTeachingBuildingToolsIraqAfghanistanVietnamInitialsVery PowerfulPhilippinesNation BuildingTeaching History Author:Miguel Syjuco
“I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.” PastFictionBuildingResidency Author:Ben Lerner
“In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.” WorldFirstsLittlesFictionBuildingScience FictionScience Fiction Movie Author:Joseph Kosinski
“For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.” ThinkingWayWritingWellsKindTwoFactsHouseDifferencesFictionFailingWrittenNew YorkExampleBuildingBrokenSummerTablesGreenWinterExperimentsMessMaking A DifferenceJournalBroken DownVermontShackLeviathan Author:Paul Auster