#fictional

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world. ↗

— Brent Spiner

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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

#fictional-characters #reading #writing #equality

That wasn't love; that was stupidity. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#fact #fictional #life #truth #life

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#on-fiction #fiction

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment. ↗

— Holly Valance

#buying #done #entertainment #fictional #hopefully

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. ↗

— David Guterson

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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. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad. ..Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it’s okay to feel things. And be who you are about them. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

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