A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I…

That's the nature of representation; every time we represent something we alter it and slightly change it. And so with that as my foundation,…

— Titus Kaphar

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your…

— Marjane Satrapi

“Fictional worlds are a great place to indulge in unspoken fantasies. . .
 like writing the dad you never had. . . but desperately wanted growing up.”

— Jc Morrows

I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a…

— Hannah Murray

The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

— Claire Messud

When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a…

— Ed Helms

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

“She smiled sinisterly. Light mist started to slowly swirl around us. All I could see was her, the tall rocks and the white wall.…

— Erica Sehyun Song

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

— Mason Cooley

Mostly we are addicted to television shows for two reasons; whether it's because we get to connect with the story-line as somewhat similar is…

— Sudha Chandran

The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth…

— Nora Roberts

“When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior…

— Terry Marselle

There are things you can say in the voice of a fictional character that you could not explore any other way.

— ContraPoints

When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the…

— Karl Ove Knausgard