Top 125 Fictional Quotes

We’ve been able to create those personalities that are not anonymous that can somehow support exposure but in a fictional way.

I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.

I’ve been fascinated by mysteries for as long as I can remember. Real, fictional, solved, unsolved, I don’t care; they all fascinate me. I think that’s a core human trait.

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.

I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library’s science fictional and fantastic holdings.

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.

I don’t think there’s any show comparable to ‘Game of Thrones’ in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.

I made my own fictional land, which is ‘Bell Choir Coast.’ It was a response to feeling really, really lost, and it was what I was looking for.

I’m surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there’s music in it for those people, too.

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.

I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of ‘Star Trek’ or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

I create fictional narratives, but it’s based on literal people.

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional ‘West Wing.’ In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.

I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.

We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.

When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less ‘real.’

The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.

I research the role, and if it’s a literary character, I read the book, and if it’s an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it’s a fictional character, I work off the script.

I’ll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don’t think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

I was a very intelligent kid. I used my intelligence to support my passions. When it came to comic books, I became enthralled in the whole universe. I had to know all the facts and timelines. The whole fictional universe was real to me.

When I was little, all I really wanted out of my life was to become Nancy Drew. I’ve always enjoyed fictional sleuths, especially Nancy.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn’t be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.

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.

In actuality, ‘Sammy’s House’ can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it ‘over there.’

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

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

I don’t think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production Fifth Estate’s portrayal of the Guardian’s work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint.

People think our business is this completely fictional world of big guys in tight clothes with no brains. That’s not the way it is; this is a psychology-driven business. You have to take people on an emotional ride without using words.

We’ll be reporting music news every week and have real bands coming and performing on ‘MyMusic,’ interacting with the fictional cast as though they were real.

I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.

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.

I think that Miley is getting a chance to be who she really is, after years of having to be a fictional character on TV.

Even though it is fictional, ‘Pose’ has really tapped into some realities that I know would come from someone who really took the time to investigate ballroom.

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.

The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.

‘A Tuna Christmas’ is the second in a series of plays created by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams featuring the fictional town of Greater Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas. What makes these plays so hysterically funny is the accurate portrayal of small-town life in the Lone Star State.

Yes, Charles Yu names his main character after himself. That main character, in fact, is both time-machine repairman and author of a book called ‘How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.’

I understand that fictional men aren’t real. Not ‘really real’. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.

I loved the idea of a book of fairytales meant especially for peculiar children, and I love even more the idea of making that fictional book real.

So my character on ‘Tyrant’ is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a fictional Middle Eastern dictator. But, he has grown up since he was young in America. He’s trained as a doctor. He’s married a beautiful American girl, had two kids, so he’s very much an American.

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.

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it’s slightly fictional.

If we can provide even a fictional roadmap to what a successful, prosperous African nation might look like, then let’s do that.