Fictional Writers Quotes

#1. Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

Caroline Leavitt

#2. 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

#3. If I had a girl I'd love to see her in my clothes. It's real romantic.

Brian Littrell

#4. 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 easily killed off.

John Banville

#5. Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

David Hockney

#6. Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

Johnny Rich

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.
The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.

Vera Nazarian

#10. What if the person you're meant to be with lives in another time?

Alexandra Monir

#11. There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they're not faithful to their audience.

Phoenix Elvis Nicholson

#12. Look, Mr. uh, Wulf I appreciate your trying to warn me about this, Ireally do. But there's no such thing as vampires. They're made-up. We writers made them up. I'm sorry we did such a good job that we made the whole world paranoid, but it's true. They're fictional. Blame Bram Stoker. He started it.

Meg Cabot

#13. I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

Ann Brashares

#14. A rush of panic comforted him with its familiarity.

Patricia Highsmith

#15. A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a real event read about in a newspaper is not always more important than a fictional one in a novel or play or poem.

Christopher Bram

#17. Always check your hats be-
fore donning them. You never know what might be lurking inside.

Marissa Meyer

#18. As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.

Dinaw Mengestu

#19. I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.

Woody Allen

#20. Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life.
And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.

Anna Quindlen

#21. Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

Michelle M. Pillow

#22. I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

Marge Piercy

#23. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#24. Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.

Ann Leckie