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Fictional Character Quotes

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. Ira Glass
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
In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with. Joaquin Phoenix
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
The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the novelist has to make, for it fundamentally affects the way readers will respond, emotionally and morally, to the fictional characters and their actions. The story of an adultery, for instance - any adultery - will affect us differently according to whether it is presented primarily from the point of view of the unfaithful person, or the injured spouse, or the lover - or as... David Lodge
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
J. K. Rowling quote: "You can have a very intense relationship with fictional..."
You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head. J. K. Rowling
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
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
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't... Wallace Stegner
John M. Ford quote: "The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at..."
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. John M. Ford
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
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did,..."
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. Jeanette Winterson
When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit. Ed Helms
Penelope Lively quote: "I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation."
I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation. Penelope Lively

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