Quotes About Fictional Characters

#1. I love fictional characters ... they can't break your heart.

Julia Hall

#2. It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Katherine Paterson

#3. We only reveal what we want other people to know, right? It's like we create fictional characters for the public. And inside we're somebody totally different.

Matt De La Pena

#4. Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.

Isabel Allende

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

Tariq Ali

#6. The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

John M. Ford

#7. It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.

Alain De Botton

#8. Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

Jodi Picoult

#9. My previous outlook could be summed up as follows: Life is shit. Math makes sense. Fictional characters are superior to real people because real people are equal parts pitiful and predictable.

Penny Reid

#10. A writer often wants to change a reader's perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.

Caryl Phillips

#11. 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

#12. But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the game and think it's important, but I can't get excited about that myself.

Brad Warner

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

Peter Dinklage

#14. I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

Carrie Fisher

#15. I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.

Laurie Graham

#16. What does it say about me that I'm jealous of the lives of fictional characters?

Alyssa Goodnight

#17. You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

J.K. Rowling

#18. I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan's, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.

Brad Warner

#19. I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men - even fictional characters. All of us are flawed. All of us are diminished by some form of prejudice and bias. If a fictional character is to be realistic, he must struggle with imperfections and weaknesses.

K. Lee Lerner

#20. I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well.

Alice McDermott

#21. The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

Louis Theroux

#22. Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

Peter Cushing

#23. I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.

Frederick Buechner

#24. I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!

Ruth Rendell

#25. 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

#26. If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Richard Bach

#27. Isn't that dangerous?" I objected. "What if somebody used it on people - what if they put it on replace and turned us all into fictional characters?"
"How do you know they haven't?" asked Marc.

Polly Shulman

#28. I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

Alan Moore

#29. If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?

Jim Power

#30. Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

Maren Elwood

#31. Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.

Sam Kean

#32. 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

#33. Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

Keira Knightley

#34. I love to have real people of history interact with my fictional characters. History gives me the plot. I research the period meticulously, and then I blend in a romantic and sensual love story to give it balance. The heavier the history, the more romantic the couple must be.

Virginia Henley

#35. In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

Mika.

#36. Fictional characters also evolve, the way human being do in real life.

Saumya Kaushik...

#37. The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

Diane Arbus

#38. And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life; not for me the endless whining and wailing of the undead.

John Boyne

#39. By the way, the best place to find names for fictional characters, if you are ever foolish enough to write a novel, is in a Bradshaw or an ABC. All the nicest people always sound like railway stations.

Beverley Nichols

#40. Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under their own power?

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

Richard Bach

#42. I take writing very seriously. There's a lot of responsibility in putting blood in the veins of fictional characters.

Brooklyn Hudson

#43. Much of the joy in falling in love with fictional characters comes from being able to envision new stories from them.

The Atlantic Monthly

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

Caroline Leavitt

#45. Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.

Chris Colfer

#46. Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.

Ben Abix

#47. We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

Miguel Syjuco

#48. 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

#49. I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.

Kassie DePaiva

#50. There are no such things as fictional characters.

Matthew Quick

#51. Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.

Edward Rutherfurd

#52. Didn't Notai ships usually have long names? Like Ineluctable Ascendancy of Mind Unfolding or The Finite Contains the Infinite Contains the Finite? Both of those ship names were fictional, characters in more or less famous melodramatic entertainments.

Ann Leckie

#53. Nerd Girl Problem # 235
That unexplainable crush you have on fictional characters.

Ella Frank

#54. 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

#55. I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby ... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

Johnny Rich

#57. For four days straights, I sit at my typewriter in my bedroom. Twenty of my typed pages, full of slashes and red-circled edits, become thirty-one in thick Strathmore white.

Kathryn Stockett

#58. 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

#59. I'm a blank canvas that I can paint however I desire. For the first time ever, I get to be the character in my own fantasy land.

E.K. Blair

#60. My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

S.E. Hinton

#61. Tonight, I want to curl up with a good book and visit my fictional boyfriends. Now let me tell you, my list is long. I am the equivalent to Hugh Hefner, but instead of bunnies I have this ever-growing list of male characters that have stolen my heart. I

Kat T. Masen

#62. If the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictions.

Jorge Luis Borges

#63. I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.'

Jonathan Jackson

#64. Maybe the midnight disease was like that, too. After a while you lost the ability to distinguish between your fictional and actual words; you confused yourself with your characters, and the random happenings of your life with the machinations of a plot.

Michael Chabon

#65. The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.

Thomas Steinbeck

#66. All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I knew and loved who didn't make it out. I wanted to bring them back to life and so, I wrote a book about them.

Sanela Ramic Jurich

#67. Real people are made out of a whole lot of things - flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

Thomas C. Foster

#68. All the characters in this book are fictional, but they are as real to me as the members of my own family. I had to tell their story because they could not.

Maral Boyadjian

#69. 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

#70. The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it

Marti Melville

#71. Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.

Sanhita Baruah

#72. Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

Edmund White

#73. A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

W.J. Raymond

#74. I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.

Doug Liman

#75. Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. You know that fictional towns exist. You visit them all the time.

Indu Muralidharan

#76. I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#77. 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

#78. I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.

Leila Aboulela

#79. I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters that are contained therein. They are counting on me as much as I am counting on them.

Nicholas Trandahl

#80. Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.

Jennifer Wilson

#81. 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

#82. If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don't have to say anything. Be friendly and then go do
your best. That will make you special, too!

Jeff Hutchins

#83. I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival. It's my responsibility to reveal them to the world, to show my readers the names of these things, to show them their histories and stories.

Nicholas Trandahl