World-building can be as complicated or as simple as your story needs it to be. - Moriah Richard

I’m not going to tell you how to start a bug-powered vehicle, I’m just going to put you inside one with somebody who knows how, and send you off on a ride. - Kameron Hurley

Books are like mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

One reason I created a fictional world at all is so that people can visit it in their minds or think about who they would be. There’s a part in the book that’s all about writing your own story before you’re quite brave enough to live it out. - Aliza Layne

Step into a scene and let it drip from your fingertips. - MJ Bush

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. - Ernest Hemingway

Your worldbuilding is unique, yes, but your characters are what will really sell your story. - Moriah Richards

Start before you’re ready. - Steven Pressfield

In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the Twilight Zone, the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution. - Josh Trank

History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events. A double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books, but with ceremonies. - Christopher Bram

In many ways, a book is, in itself, a tiny universe. Each page is like a newly formed galaxy, fashioned from a single, pulsing thought. A book travels for days, for years, sometimes for centuries to meet you at an exact point in time. - Lang Leav

Worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It’s scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can’t have realistic feeling scenery. You can’t have cool, unique backdrops for your story. - Patrick Rothfuss

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. - Charles R SwindollThe secret of being boring is to say everything. - Voltaire

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. - Aristotle

If you don’t think there is magic in writing, you probably won’t write anything magical. - Terry Brooks

There is no beauty without some strangeness. - Edgar Allan Poe