Imaginary Quote by Dana Spiotta

I like to mix the real and the imaginary. Sometimes it is characters inspired by real people I know or know of. Sometimes it…

— Dana Spiotta

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor.…

— Michael Schur

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them…

— Allan Massie

I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented, blurry, personas…

— Matt Berninger

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

— Jami Attenberg

I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot…

— Karen Robards

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life…

— William Maxwell

Usually I start with a concept, which I then sketch out so that I can get a feel for the character. The character doesn't…

— Noelle Stevenson

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

— Sol LeWitt

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to…

— Margaret Mahy

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we…

— Mohsin Hamid