“the researchers found that people who strongly identified with a fictional character who overcame obstacles to vote were significantly more likely to… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel… — Cassandra Clare 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
“Can I ask you a question?” he asks as we complete our first loop on the train. “Okay,” I say, warily, not… — Emily Harper Copy Share Image
I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
“How sad that I felt more of a connection to a fictional character than to a guy in real life.” — Allison Van Diepen Copy Share Image
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.' — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“He's a real nowhere man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Doesn't have a point of… — The Beatles Copy Share Image
I think that Miley is getting a chance to be who she really is, after years of having to be a fictional… — Brandi Cyrus Copy Share Image
I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I was feeling like I'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. I don't believe… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“It is only after knowing him for some time that you begin to realize you are, to him, an essentially fictional character,… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
It seems to me that any popular fictional character's appeal is idiosyncratic in nature. Characters with large followings - Sherlock Holmes, Harry… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
It's not about what you say, its about what you do. You don't like the person you've become then do something about… — Peyton Sawyer Copy Share Image
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
