Fictional Character Quotes - Page 2

• [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.

  Megan Chance

  Kings, Wine, Character

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters. Let's see. First on my list is Sam Gamgee from The Lord of The Rings. Sam is a beautiful character; in him, we find the profound heroism of an ordinary person. He epitomizes the saying that courage isn't not being afraid, courage is going anyway. I just love that.

  Megan Chance

  Beautiful, Character, Profound

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• When you're training as an actor, a lot of the big work you're learning is to treat fictional characters like real people. You don't have the problem of discovering a backstory with real people, but there's always a mystery which is common to both fictional and factual characters. They are never quite the person you think they are.

  Toby Jones

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.

  Frederick Buechner

  Character, Past, Creative

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• It seems to me that any popular fictional character's appeal is idiosyncratic in nature. Characters with large followings - Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, the crew of the Starship Enterprise - seem to embody something very particular even as they speak to something within a huge number of people. When I think of the most time-tested examples, the common thread appears to be an author who feels deeply for what he is creating.

  Jason Lutes

  Character, Thinking, People

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• But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the game and think it's important, but I can't get excited about that myself.

  Brad Warner

  Character, Thinking, Games

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan's, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.

  Brad Warner

  Real, Character, Mean

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about real people. In nonfiction, you can only say so much about the people you interact with. After all, they're actual people, their version of their story trumps yours. In a novel, you can build a character, using certain parts or impressions of someone you know, and guessing or inventing others, without having to worry that your guesses or memories or inventions are wrong.

  Elif Batuman

  Memories, Real, Character

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Character, Thinking, Tears

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• 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.

  Grant Morrison

  Character, Gay, Comic Book

  "The Super Psyche of Comic Book Shaman Grant Morrison". Interview with Gavin Edwards, www.playboy.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Character, Grieving

  "'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin: Why he wrote The Red Wedding". Interview with James Hibberd, ew.com. June 2, 2013.

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

  Louis Theroux

  Writing, Character, World

  Louis Theroux (2009). “The Call of the Weird: Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner”, p.111, Da Capo Press

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• 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

  Character, People, Literature

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• There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

  Cassandra Clare

  Character, Disease, Sides

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• Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

  Jodi Picoult

  Character, Talking, Tip Of The Iceberg

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

  David Benioff

  Passion, Character, Men

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• 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.

  Chris Colfer

  Character, People, Healthy

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• She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Taken, Character

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale. "So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a...what?" "A wizard." "Like Harry Potter?" Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter." "In what way?" "I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dog, Real, Character

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

  Carrie Fisher

  Character

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• Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

  Shannon Hale

  Real, Character, Years

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.9, A&C Black

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• I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.

  Kate Atkinson

  Children, Character, Thinking

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Emotionally Weird: A Novel”, p.102, Macmillan

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• Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon

  Garrison Keillor

  Moving, Character, Mean

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• I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind “refreshingly honest,” and hailed Marc’s temper as “a deep protective instinct.” He said Ethan “thoroughly enjoyed life,” and that Parker “really knew how to have a good time.” According to Owen, we were all doing just fine, and all was right with the world.

  Rachel Vincent

  Character, Mind, World

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.230, MIRA

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• 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, Ideas, Film

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