“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.” — Kristen Reed Copy Share Image
Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs. — Louis Theroux Copy Share Image
I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.' — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do. — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
[I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters.]Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. There's a whole… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I'd extend an invitation to Lisbeth Salander. She would definitely shake the party up and get it started. I think she is… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“Indy Rivers got things done. Maybe she was a fictional character, but they were in a fictional place, in a fictional situation.… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Life is too short to hide who you really are. Whether you’re a fictional character or a real person, you will not… — Hayley Guertin Copy Share Image
I basically enjoy doing films that are about something, that have complex roles that I can sink my teeth into. Basically, I… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I love playing real people. It's a huge challenge and responsibility which I take on board and which I relish. It also… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
With Rob actually, we sat down and talked about Edward's character before the filming started and I'd just come in and met… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“The reign of tears is over,” proclaimed evangelist Billy Sunday in Virginia, during a mock funeral for John Barelycorn, a fictional character… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“When Pat gave her ‘criminal-hero’ Tom Ripley a charmed and parentless life, a wealthy, socially poised Alter Ego (Dickie Greenleaf), and a… — Joan Schenkar Copy Share Image
“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial.… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“Angry people scared me. Angry people who thought I was in charge scared me even more.” — Amanda Hamm Copy Share Image
To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person. — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
“She buried herself in books because it was easier to fall in love with a fictional character than it is to deal… — Vanessa Trinita Copy Share Image
I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work. — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
“The day when you shed a tear for the death of a fictional character, you know they have become more than a… — Ryan J. Alls Copy Share Image
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Woolf liberates the text, the imagination, the fictional character, and then demands that liberty for ourselves, most particularly for women.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I’d even had the opportunity to sin.” — Kristen Reed Copy Share Image
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image