We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of…

— Allen Tate

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always…

— Colleen McCullough

We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending…

— Michael Moore

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

— Frederic Bastiat

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist…

— George Saintsbury

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

— Samuel Johnson

“Not even I know if this I that I’m disclosing to you, in these meandering pages, actually exists or is but a fictitious, aesthetic…

— Fernando Pessoa

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

— Anonymous

False judgement will only lead to a fictitious outcome.

— Joseph Mercado

“The fictitious men in romance novels are as fake and imaginary as vampires. They're not real.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a nonexistent devil that you do…

— Mike Klepper

“The characters and events in this book are fictitious.”

— Daniel Abraham

I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.

— Dasha Zhukova

“The only wards I ever knew happen to be fictitious characters."--Augusta Evans Wilson, VASHTI, (1869).”

— Sheryl Wright Stinchcum