“Nerd Girl Problem # 235 That unexplainable crush you have on fictional characters.” — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
There are bands who write of emotions that are very heartbreaking, touching, or relatable, but they'll be like concept records, they're about… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
While I've been well-known for trying to keep my fictional characters individual in their looks, it's an even greater challenge not only… — George Perez 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 want to make fictional characters who are perfect - that's a vanilla situation - but the fact is you are… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up.” — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“In this sense, Rachel envied fictional characters. For them, everything would eventually make sense. If she were fictional, all the random, ridiculous… — Ruth Buchanan 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
Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and… — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
I'd extend an invitation to Lisbeth Salander. She would definitely shake the party up and get it started. I think she is… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
When you're training as an actor, a lot of the big work you're learning is to treat fictional characters like real people.… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and… — Peter Cushing 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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
“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'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
“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
But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“I take writing very seriously. There's a lot of responsibility in putting blood in the veins of fictional characters.” — Brooklyn Hudson Copy Share Image
I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television. — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
“No more movie references. No more fictional characters to relate to. This was real. It was destiny. I was…a thing, a commodity.” — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“isn't that dangerous?" I objected. "What if somebody used it on people - what if they put it on replace and turned… — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.” — Ben Abix 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