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I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world. — Joel Edgerton

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool. — Tom Dolby

Has there ever been anybody, real or fictional, whiter than Betty Crocker? — Howie Carr

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural. — Edward M. Lerner

How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up. — Richard Bach

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale. — Cory Doctorow

There are only two things you'll ever need to know about me, Farin - and you should know them well. I'm very smart, and I'm very rich. — Heather O'Brien

How could you fall in love with a three inch worm? — Stephenie Meyer

Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach than real life ones who smelled of Christmas and looked like a Calvin Klein model — Tarryn Fisher

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps. — Elena Ferrante

Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back. — Ben Abix

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head. — J.K. Rowling

Are there any leading men in your life?"

"Several, but they're all fictional. — Catherine Lowell

There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine. — Varric Tethras

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do. — Neil Cross

Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy. — Leo Tolstoy

Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away. — Robert Kurson

I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me. — Margaret Stohl

You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place! — Stephen Richards

Life must be so boring without the delight that comes from fictional stories. — Blaire Hammond

Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I'd even had the opportunity to sin. — Kristen Reed

History is filled with fictional people. — Robyn Schneider

This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge. — Joan Silber

I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional. — Wolfgang Petersen

No more movie references. No more fictional characters to relate to. This was real. It was destiny. I was ... a thing, a commodity. — C.J. Roberts

A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia. — Robert Friedrich

I am Captain James Hook! I am no victim; I create them! I do not have bad dreams; I inspire them! — Heidi Schulz

I've had hundreds of boyfriends. So what if they're fictional? Don't you dare judge our love. — Julie Johnson

I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she is clueless about the Guardianee? — Erica Sehyun Song

Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. — John M. Ford

Every fictional character is real, they just inherit a different world. — Daniel Schwabauer

what can I say? Can't beat fictional boyfriends. They're the best. *** — Jo Raven

Look seeker, if you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer. Maybe even throw in a heroic death! — Varric Tethras

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one. — Rainbow Rowell

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person. — Caroline Lawrence

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights. — Matthew Pearl

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. — Nicole Krauss

It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth. — A.J. Waines

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted. — Tariq Ali

The only thing crazier than hallucinating a fictional videogame spaceship would be to blame it on a frosted breakfast pastry. — Ernest Cline

As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble. — Octavia E. Butler

Reading had always been my lifeline
an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy ... — Phyllis A. Whitney

I could have drowned ... and my brother didn't even care. — Erica Sehyun Song

He almost felt guilty about bringing even fictional murder and mayhem to such a place. Almost. — Nora Roberts

you know: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF HUGS IS THE ENTIRE REASON I EVER ENGAGE IN ANY NARRATIVE, FICTIONAL OR OTHERWISE?? — Ryan North

I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do ... — John Geddes

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. — Joan Fontcuberta

I'm always a little apprehensive about 'decoding' fictional stories. — Adrian Tomine

Idealistic world views should be our focus. — Sunday Adelaja

The best boyfriends are the ones in books. — Leah Blundell

There's no consensus in the mental health community on how to maintain the sanity of a person whose whole existence is fictional. — Robert Kroese

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world. — Brent Spiner

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had. — Marco Tempest

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. — Helena Christensen

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation. — Penelope Lively

Dianetics, Hayakawa noted, was neither science nor fiction, but something else: "fictional science. — Lawrence Wright

The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it — Marti Melville

Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have. — Josh Dun

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description. — Nicolle Wallace

This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that. — Carroll Bryant

I read for pleasure
In search of fictional worlds
To enrich my truths — A.A. Patawaran

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt

Much of the joy in falling in love with fictional characters comes from being able to envision new stories from them. — The Atlantic Monthly

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry. — Charles Stross

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world. — Kristin Gore

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean? — Stacy Hawkins Adams

I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way. — Terence Winter

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. — Carol Ann Duffy

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television. — Peter Dinklage

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? — Johnny Rich

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist. — Sharon Sant

The day when you shed a tear for the death of a fictional character, you know they have become more than a character. — Ryan J. Alls

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination. — Jennifer Gilmore

It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath. — William Finnegan

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong. — Alanis Morissette

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real. — Jake M. Johnson

We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life. — Danielle Ganek

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character. — Natalie Dormer

Even if they are fictional, I always thought that mermaids were beautiful creatures. Of course, they don't compare to you, but still ... — Daniele Lanzarotta

Angry people scared me. Angry people who thought I was in charge scared me even more. — Amanda Hamm

I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction. — John Gimlette

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. — John M. Ford

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional. — Pseudonymous Bosch

It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

This rain doesn't cleanse my skin, nor soothe my battered and broken body. It doesn't hide my tears.
It burns. — Dylan J. Morgan

I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long. — Erica Sehyun Song

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

How does one go about getting an introduction to a fictional character? — Richard Bruce Nugent

No fictional boy has ever compared to you. — Jay McLean

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well. — Will Self

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. — Jeanette Winterson

How sad that I felt more of a connection to a fictional character than to a guy in real life. — Allison Van Diepen

Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood. — George Lucas

'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums. — Amy Bloom

A fictional, but all too real, look at extremist militias in the United States and the extent to which some of them go to carry out their 'missions'. — Jon Niccum

I fictionship. I love fictional men. — Margaret Stohl

My shows and books are an instant mood adjuster. They're my drugs of choice. And the fictional characters I love are like my friends. — Susane Colasanti

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.
the people of Lake Woebegon — Garrison Keillor