Fictional Quotes

165 quotes by 152 authors

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy… — Maureen Corrigan
Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into… — Holly Valance
Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously… — Grant Morrison
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly… — Norman Spinrad
We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according… — Kate Mulgrew
Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because… — Leslie Marmon Silko
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very… — Frederik Pohl
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can… — Katherine Paterson
Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation. — Penelope Lively
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. — John M. Ford
Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think.… — Mary Lee Settle
A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so… — Caryl Phillips
Michael Cole does not deserve to be piled on like many are doing. He deserves respect. Michael is fulfilling a role on a fictional, TV… — Jim Ross
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
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power… — Edmond de Goncourt
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as… — John Banville
For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so… — Aimee Mann
I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. — Helena Christensen
I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s. — Lisa Loeb

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