Fictionalized Quotes

#1. I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is.

Henry Rollins

#2. I felt a wish to be fictionalized.

Hilary Mantel

#3. I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war, and I fictionalized that episode, which was told to me very briefly without much detail.

Chang-rae Lee

#4. Siberia taught Dostoyevsky much that would be fictionalized in Demons, including criminal speech, the criminal mind and the ways of officialdom.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. We all convince ourselves of things like this- not necessarily about Say Anything, but about any fictionalized portrayals of romance that happen to hit us in the right place, at the right time.

Chuck Klosterman

#6. I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

Jim C. Hines

#7. I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route.

Kate Zambreno

#8. If you fictionalized my character, I could live a bit longer.

Aaron Cooley

#9. It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.

Claire Danes

#10. I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate. But most of the stuff in my novels is entirely invented, ninety-five percent. And even when I do borrow something, it becomes fictionalized.

Paul Auster

#11. Sometimes I feel as if I've lived about five lifetimes...all fictionalized in my five books.

Laurel-Rain Snow

#12. I'm pretty sure I've fictionalized how great living alone is.

Colleen Hoover

#13. It takes a fictionalized or invented excursion to buy a pencil in the winter dusk of London as an excuse to explore darkness, wandering, invention, the annihilation of identity, the enormous adventure that transpires in the mind while the body travels a quotidian course.

Rebecca Solnit

#14. Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.

Rob Sheffield

#15. Living life is so simple if only you accept yourself and learn to forgive your mistakes and others.

Wordfaith3

#16. Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.

Colleen Saidman

#17. Jesus doesn't belong to church people. But church people belong to Him, in Him, and through Him.

Sarah Bessey

#18. There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

Martha Reeves

#19. I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.

Victor Salva

#20. I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

Mike May

#21. I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.

Nancy Meyers

#22. Run the race of life with all endurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. You might say that I was a sort of modern-day Robin Hood, merrily stealing from the rich. Only I never, ever gave my loot away for free.

Jennifer Estep

#24. I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.

Laini Giles

#25. What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either because he has been lost or because he has been found?

Jodi Picoult

#26. There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.

Gautama Buddha