#fictional

Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight. ↗

— Kristen Reed

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #fictional-character #friendship #love

Heavy is the head that holds the pen of creation. We construct these characters from nothing, molding them from our imaginations. We give them hopes and dreams and unique personalities until they feel so real you’re mind believes it must be so. We watch them grow by our hands, not always knowing the paths they will choose with the obstacles we throw at them. They take on a life of their own and often surprise even us by their actions we couldn’t have imagined before it poured out of us onto the paper. We could change it if we really wanted to, but it would be forced and not be true to the characters. And when something tragic happens and one is lost, we feel that loss even though we know they were not a friend, a family member or even ourselves. It can be a hard thing to voice sometimes, to give tribute to the one’s left behind with the real sadness over something not so real. But we find the words and press on to the next challenge, because that's what good writers do. ↗

— Jennifer A. Marsh

#fiction #fictional-characters #loss #writers #change

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#analogous #consciously #does #fact #fictional

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. ↗

— John M. Ford

#creating #different #fiction #fictional #game

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

— Brent Spiner

#fictional #having #i #much #prefer

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#bizarre #completely #fictional #find #i

I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting. ↗

— Scott McClanahan

#fiction #fictional #nonfiction #paintings #art

[I]t is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#cities #city-life #fictional-london #history #life

That wasn't love; that was stupidity. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#fact #fictional #life #truth #life

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

— Julia Hall

#heartbreak #love #on-fiction #love