Fictional Quotes

165 quotes by 152 authors

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great… — Paul Auster
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. — Richard Bach
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
I think TV is a medium where you can be entertained, you can be informed, you can relax and you can escape whenever you want.… — Gerhard Zeiler
I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' Itâ€™s just a painting. — Scott McClanahan
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak… — Keira Knightley
It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them. — Miranda July
Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world — Brent Spiner
The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs. — Louis Theroux
This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge. — Joan Silber
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we… — Philip K. Dick
In good novelistic fashion, the discovery Iâ€™ve made is that itâ€™s complicated. I think thatâ€™s one of good things about exploring these questions in a… — Hari Kunzru
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, donâ€™t put a character in a room alone â€“… — Les Standiford
I've written about domestic violence in my book, Lola Rose and it's a great relief to know that terrified children like Jayni, my fictional heroine… — Jacqueline Wilson
Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you… — Phil McGraw
If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them.… — Cassandra Clare
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings,… — Glenn Miller
The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true… — George Saunders
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional… — Meryl Streep
Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. — John M. Ford

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