Life Quote by Melissa Kantor

“The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.”

— Ian McEwan

“But he’d found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“You know your characters are truly alive, when they start to write their own story and take you to places you didn't expect.”

— Joanne McDonnell

“This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary friends.”

— April Lindner

“If you fictionalized my character, I could live a bit longer.”

— Aaron Cooley

“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”

— Franklin P. Adams

“He was doing what a man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.”

— Mitch Albom

“If your life was a book, would you be the main character?”

— T00zday

“For how could he live with himself, if indeed he did live at all, knowing that his life was so inextricably bound to others,…

— Daniel Wallace

“I've grown addicted to the characters in my favorite novels. If only they were real...”

— Devonnie A. Black

“I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts...”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne