I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

— Philip K. Dick

“I’m living in fiction. It’s perfectly okay to be in love with any and all fictional boyfriends, even if they aren’t yours.”

— Anne Eliot

“She buried herself in books because it was easier to fall in love with a fictional character than it is to deal with the…

— Vanessa Trinita

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

— Anonymous

“Amanda herself couldn't understand why her writing was so different from her own personality. Her pen seemed to take on a life of its…

— Lisa Kleypas

I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for…

— Steven Knight

Yeah, I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules.

— Steven Knight

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

— Anonymous

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

— Diane Arbus

If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for…

— Cassandra Clare

Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer…

— Maren Elwood

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for…

— Miguel Syjuco

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

— Caroline Leavitt

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

— Louis Theroux