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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

Real, Understand, Sometimes

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
J. C. Watts

Government, Cannot, Used

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Mason Cooley

Actual, Explains, Unlike

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.
Dee Dee Myers

Life, Real, Made

It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
Vin Diesel

Real, Challenge, Able

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

Great, Character, Confusion

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

Character, Bad, Start

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark Powell

Strength, Creative, Vision

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
Jodi Picoult

Life, Family, Crisis

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Character, Writing, Real

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

Great, Movies, Human

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.
Erin Morgenstern

Mind, Everything, Through

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.
Lisa Loeb

Love, Mind, Show

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

Life, Find, Write

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

Politics, History, Writing

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.
Jeffrey Sachs

Real, Off, Until

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
Penelope Lively

Character, Occupation, Firmly

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.
Bill James

Real, Violence, Full

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

Truth, Trying, Creative

There's an undeniable thrill in seeing what's most current in our lives offered back to us in fictional guise, but it soon dates and it's never enough.
Graham Swift

Enough, Lives, Soon

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.
Clive Anderson

Time, Home, Same

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
Christopher Darden

Her, Reading, Interested

Has there ever been anybody, real or fictional, whiter than Betty Crocker?
Howie Carr

Real, Anybody, Betty

I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.
Cecily von Ziegesar

Writing, College, Story

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

Science, Fact, Scientific

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
Mary Gordon

Good, Mind, Bad

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

Character, Real, Difficult

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.
Aimee Mann

Yourself, Between, Story

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

Game, Different, Fiction

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

Language, Characters, Effect

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