“To really be a nerdshe'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds over the real one.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself! — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world. — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Has there ever been anybody, real or fictional, whiter than Betty Crocker? — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
“The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional” — Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being… — Curtis Sittenfeld 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
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think every man wants to be a writer. They want to invent a world with the perfect imaginary woman, someone… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“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 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 love playing real people. It's a huge challenge and responsibility which I take on board and which I relish. It also… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge. — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs. — Louis Theroux Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...simply telling the truth wasn’t half enough. It still has to be brought to fictional life.” — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Corporations are a fictional entity that are designed to make money, and they're neither people nor patriots. — Scott Peters 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
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real. — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it. — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?” — Jim Power Copy Share Image
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work. — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
