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But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.
— Tom Dolby
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
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
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
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
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
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 lifelinean 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
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
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 pleasureIn 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
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
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
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
I fictionship. I love fictional men.
— Margaret Stohl
