You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Nerd Girl Problem # 235 That unexplainable crush you have on fictional characters.” — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself! — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
“It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters. — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
“My shows and books are an instant mood adjuster. They’re my drugs of choice. And the fictional characters I love are like… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves.… — Alan Moore 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
“Sometimes I get advice from the fictional characters in my dreams. Sometimes It’s good, and sometimes it’s nonsensical.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My next guest [ for party with five favorite fictional characters] would be Scarlett from Gone With The Wind. I mean, come… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“The proverb, "Where there's a will.." sums it up for a writer who had just started in his writing life; for himself,… — Lucas Michael 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
Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can… — Edward Rutherfurd 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
Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Fictional characters exert a great deal of influence over our choices in love by representing inaccessible ideals to which we try to… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood.… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
“The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing… — Gloria Goldreich Copy Share Image
The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they… — Keira Knightley 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
“Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the “irresponsibility” of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when… — James Wood Copy Share Image
“As a historian, I found myself all too often treating my historical subjects like fictional characters, malleable entities that could be made… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“Amanda herself couldn't understand why her writing was so different from her own personality. Her pen seemed to take on a life… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Plenty of people were writing novels; in fact, if one did a survey in the street, half of Edinburgh was writing a… — Alexander McCall Smith 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
“Fictional Characters" Do they ever want to escape? Climb out of the white pages and enter our world? Holden Caulfield slipping in… — Danusha Laméris Copy Share Image
“Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Leave me alone to mourn the deaths of fictional characters I have become overly attached to.” — Your Ecards 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
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself. — Mika Copy Share Image
“Fictional characters soon take on a life of their own. They run with the bit between their teeth.” — Jay Parini Copy Share Image
“Old bookworms never die, they just go to be with their favorite fictional characters.” — Random Copy Share Image