Fictional Quotes · Page 3

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

— Carrie Fisher

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

— John Updike

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

— Dave Gibbons

Has there ever been anybody, real or fictional, whiter than Betty Crocker?

— Howie Carr

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

— John M. Ford

“The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional”

— Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.

— Joan Silber

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

— Louis Theroux

There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never…

— H. P. Lovecraft

'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own…

— Amy Bloom

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists…

— Laurie Graham

What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the…

— Ruth Ozeki

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything…

— Lily King

The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function…

— Adam Frank

“From this we conclude, that, to live in harmony and peace…we must trace a line of distinction between those (assertions) that are…

— Constantin François De Volney

The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Holmes is a brand,…

— Rob Thomas

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

There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly…

— Rachel Cusk

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

I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I…

— Seanan McGuire

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive…

— Cynthia Ozick

So my character on 'Tyrant' is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a fictional Middle…

— Adam Rayner

“No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.”

— Hiroshi Ishizaki

“...simply telling the truth wasn’t half enough. It still has to be brought to fictional life.”

— John Clellon Holmes

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

— Anonymous

Corporations are a fictional entity that are designed to make money, and they're neither people nor patriots.

— Scott Peters

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

— Caroline Leavitt

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

— Jake M. Johnson

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

— Jeanette Winterson

The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

— Mandy Patinkin

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

— Jim Power

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

— Jami Attenberg

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

— Lauryn Hill

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

— Annie Baker

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.

— Lucy Walker

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

— Claire Messud

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

— ContraPoints

“Our pendants glowed in unison and I understood that they represented us – Siren and human intertwined for eternity.”

— Erica Sehyun Song