I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
“That awkward moment when you must explain to people that the person you are complaining about is fictional.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“If the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictions.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head. — S. E. Hinton 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
The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a… — Neil Gaiman 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 would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as… — Jonathan Jackson Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
“Would you rather live in a world without technology…or in a world without religion? Would you rather live without medicine, electricity, transportation,… — Dan Brown 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
I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
“Response to the question by The Atlantic: Who is the Greatest Fictional Character of All Time? "God is the author of all… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting… — Paul Bloom 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
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
“Really powerful human organisations – such as pharaonic Egypt, communist China, the European empires and the modern school system – are not… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“There is no valid reason for the perennial Christian preference of biography, history, and the newspaper to fiction and poetry. The former… — Leland Ryken 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
“Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“A long time ago, there was a little girl called Mary. Now Mary, she was warned several times not to go to… — Erica Sehyun Song 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
“She was so plain. Would it kill you to wear skirts more, he had said to her. Would it really hurt you?… — Meg Sefton Copy Share Image
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy theories—feverishly creative, lovingly plotted—are in fact fictional stories that some people believe. Conspiracy theorists connect real data points and imagined data… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
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