Fictional Character Quotes

We are what we believe we are.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

When someone disrespects you, beware the impulse to win their respect. For disrespect is not a valuation of your worth but a signal of their character.

Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh;

they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

My friend asked me recently, "Do you find it weird that you are now the property of other people's imaginations?" I hadn't thought about that before, this passionate following, with fan fiction and artwork. At first it felt like an invasion of privacy, but then I realized it's nice that the character can be shared.

A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.

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.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not.

Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

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.

To be yourself in a world that in constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?

Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.

That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.

[I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters.

]Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. There's a whole world about Roland left to know. I've got questions. He'd have answers. So pour him a glass of wine.

I don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear them, with a clarity that I would call hallucinatory if hallucination didn't mean something else ... A character whom we create can never die, any more than a friend can die ... Through [my characters] I've lived many parallel lives.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown.

I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

Be curious, bot judgmental.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent.

it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.

Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you love. It will not lead you astray.

You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.

One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story.

Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters.

It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.

Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy.

In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually existed. There's so much more to draw on and your research as an actor becomes much easier than if it's some fiction that you're trying to create a world around and background and history.

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you do want to pay respect to that.