There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever. — Orson Scott Card 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
Im the kind of girl who cries over fictional tv, book, and movie characters. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world. — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Has there ever been anybody, real or fictional, whiter than Betty Crocker? — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge. — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.” — Hiroshi Ishizaki Copy Share Image
“I could have drowned today. If they hadn’t been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn’t woken up, I would… — Erica Sehyun Song 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
There's an undeniable thrill in seeing what's most current in our lives offered back to us in fictional guise, but it soon… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
We live a life that have us ignoring our true gifts and talents while performing assigned or inherited roles instead, and so… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
A lot of our songs are based in reality but imagined or using fictional characters as a way to write about something.… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer… — Dave Gorman Copy Share Image
As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions -… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
With fiction, you are creating an imaginary world. And it can be a very mechanical process. In a fictional film, you create… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
There are a number of things that I'm trying to get into the books. There's a meta-fictional aspect, if I may use… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Look, Mr. uh, Wulf I appreciate your trying to warn me about this, Ireally do. But there's no such thing as vampires.… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only… — John Irving Copy Share Image
All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel… — Esther Rantzen Copy Share Image
“Now, years later, he had been commissioned to fashion pictures with sugar water and dyes, a holiday mural. He had risen into… — Meg Sefton 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
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'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 thing creators have to remember is that to a very real extent they are fictional characters to their fans—and that what fans want… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Sterling Memorial, the main library at Yale, had been built to resemble a Gothic cathedral, replete with stained glass, carved stonework, and… — Monique Truong 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
