I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself! — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character. — Lisa Lutz 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
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
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
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
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 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
“Angry people scared me. Angry people who thought I was in charge scared me even more.” — Amanda Hamm 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
Donald Trump wouldn't work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional… — Lionel Shriver 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
“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
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
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
“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
“What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come… — Kate Klimo Copy Share Image
I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters. Let's see. First on my list is Sam Gamgee from… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I basically enjoy doing films that are about something, that have complex roles that I can sink my teeth into. Basically, I… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
History is basically really looking back and finding out what happened to an individual, a community, a family, a group in a… — Tamlyn Tomita 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 was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book.… — 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
“ Okay, this is a fictional character," Lily began. "And he's like a human." "What?" Adam asked her, looking befuddled. "What the… — N.M. Silber 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'd said to them that when we read fiction, we pour our own paricular store of emotions - say, the sense of… — Chandler Burr Copy Share Image
“The Draper Principle Don Draper, in case you don’t know, is the fictional character from the hit AMC show Mad Men. He… — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
“Mr Bott sits down and gestures gracefully to the board. "As you are clearly both fascinated by this text, would you like… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial.… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“When Pat gave her ‘criminal-hero’ Tom Ripley a charmed and parentless life, a wealthy, socially poised Alter Ego (Dickie Greenleaf), and a… — Joan Schenkar Copy Share Image
“But sympathy in novels need not be simply a matter of the reader’s direct identification with a fictional character. It can also… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
