If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“I'm gonna sit around here, stay away from there I'm gonna make pretend I just don't care. I could get up, go… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as… — Jonathan Jackson Copy Share Image
The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Holmes is a brand,… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
“I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“The rEaL wOrLd is but a fictional place where those who have narrow minds and shallow imagination compile their oppressive ideas of… — Khayri R.R. Woulfe Copy Share Image
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. — John Updike Copy Share Image
As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions -… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself. — Mika Copy Share Image
I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
“A long time ago, there was a little girl called Mary. Now Mary, she was warned several times not to go to… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Now, years later, he had been commissioned to fashion pictures with sugar water and dyes, a holiday mural. He had risen into… — Meg Sefton Copy Share Image
I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
“Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
