Imaginary Characters Quotes

#1. The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

Milan Kundera

#2. They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

Margaret Mahy

#3. I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.

Ken Follett

#4. Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

Raymond Queneau

#5. It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

Anne Tyler

#6. That was out of line."
"No, it wasn't, querida." He smiled, the devastating smile she found irresistible. "You're my wife, and you do have an amazing mouth.

Delaney Diamond

#7. There is among the people a silent, long-suffering grief; it withdraws into itself and is silent.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

Mohsin Hamid

#9. I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

Mark Morris

#10. Death is a great tragedy ... a profound loss ... I don't accept it ... I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

Ray Kurzweil

#11. While 45 percent of the land on earth is used to raise animals and food to feed them, it is estimated that only 5 percent is used to grow plant-based foods consumed directly by humans. This 5 percent, though, supplies 80 percent of the calories consumed by humans.15

Richard Oppenlander

#12. You think I ever stopped wanting to die after the motel?" I ask. "You think a feeling like that just goes away?

Courtney Summers

#13. There's no such thing as a perfect relationship. It's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#14. I bleed words.
I dream in narrative.
I live in infinite worlds.
I befriend figmental characters.
I wish on stars in other galaxies.
I harvest stories from a brooding muse.
I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.
I am a writer.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.

Allan Massie

#17. Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.

Maxine Cheshire

#18. Evangelical obedience is true in its essence, though not perfect in its degree; and where it comes short, Christ puts his merits into the scales, and then there is full weight.

Thomas Watson

#19. You can't live with literary characters no matter how much you might like to. You can have them as imaginary friends that you can call up when you need to. One of the tasks of art is to provide people with companions.

Henning Mankell

#20. Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Antisthenes

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

Franklin P. Adams

#22. This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Neil Gaiman

#23. I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.

Eric Stoltz

#24. Some situations can never be explained. You will only receive the true meaning of them through experience.

Lace

#25. I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such.

Dilshad Vadsaria

#26. I like to mix the real and the imaginary. Sometimes it is characters inspired by real people I know or know of. Sometimes it is a named person from the common cultural dreamscape. And it is tricky, because they have a lot of associated ideas that come with them, and a lot of actual facts.

Dana Spiotta

#27. When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

Chris Lilley