#characters

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

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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

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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

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Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. ↗

— Julien Green

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I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done. ↗

— Mark Harmon

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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior. ↗

— Rob James-Collier

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I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason. ↗

— Tom Kenny

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