Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do. — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
“Angry people scared me. Angry people who thought I was in charge scared me even more.” — Amanda Hamm Copy Share Image
When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person. — Caroline Lawrence 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
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. — John M. Ford 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
I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
“It was so easy to get excited about someone I didn’t know, so easy to play “crush” from afar, just like with… — Gaia B. Amman 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
“Meaning, yes -- I don't really exist except on the page or in the back of your brain. But if you think… — Kyle Michel Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is too short to hide who you really are. Whether you’re a fictional character or a real person, you will not… — Hayley Guertin Copy Share Image
“The reign of tears is over,” proclaimed evangelist Billy Sunday in Virginia, during a mock funeral for John Barelycorn, a fictional character… — Charles River Editors 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 don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear… — Marguerite Yourcenar 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
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
“You just like the idea of me. You like the person I present myself under circumstances that I can control. I choose… — Han 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
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
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt 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 day when you shed a tear for the death of a fictional character, you know they have become more than a… — Ryan J. Alls Copy Share Image
“She buried herself in books because it was easier to fall in love with a fictional character than it is to deal… — Vanessa Trinita 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've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There are things you can say in the voice of a fictional character that you could not explore any other way. — ContraPoints 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
“On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot… — Sharon Sant Copy Share Image
It can be a fictional character and yet relatable... It always depends on the content of the film and what you are… — Kartik Aaryan Copy Share Image
Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon — Garrison Keillor 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
