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• I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

  Alan Moore

  Dream, Adventure, Character

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• If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If they've never cried for a fictional character, then they've never loved one (and what a joy that is). If they've never cried at a book, a movie, a piece of music, then they've missed one of the great pleasures life has to offer. Just because fiction does not contain things that are real doesn't mean it doesn't contain truth, and we find it through the alchemy of our tears.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Book, Character

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

  Caroline Leavitt

  Character, People, Use

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• The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

  Diane Arbus

  Character, Stories, World

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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

  George R. R. Martin

  Character, Grieving, Popcorn

  "'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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• We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Real, Character, People

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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• People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are the result of both environment and heredity, and your fictional characters, in order to be believable, must be also.

  Lois Duncan

  Spring, Character, Blue

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• 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.

  Meryl Streep

  Pain, Character, Made Up Stories

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• Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I am excited to write about the real world, to stay in it. Fiction is an escape, a parallel life, and it was a powerful source of comfort for me when my own life was raw and uncomfortable. I don't feel the burning need to disappear into a fictional character these days.

  Kate Christensen

  Lonely, Powerful, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.

  David Duchovny

  Character, Play, People

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson talk The X-Files revival". Interview with John Nugent, www.empireonline.com. January 13, 2016.

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• Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.

  Scott Bradfield

  Children, Teenager, Character

  "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. September 10, 2013.

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• 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.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

  Woody Allen

  Character, Italian, Closest

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• 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. They're full of flaws as much as they are full of heroics. I think the reason that people love them and hate them so much is because, in some way, they always see a mirror of themselves in them, and you can always understand them on some level. Sometimes it's a terrifyingly dark mirror that's held up. 

  Keira Knightley

  Hate, Character, Dark

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• Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

  Maren Elwood

  Character, Two, Mind

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• When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

  Natalie Dormer

  Real, Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.

  Marge Piercy

  Character, Thinking, Different

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I love playing real people. It's a huge challenge and responsibility which I take on board and which I relish. It also scares me to death. Give me a totally fictional character and I don't have the same sort of responsibility. If, though, I play Sigmund Freud or Robert Maxwell or whoever then there is a responsibility.

  David Suchet

  Real, Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing a real person who's actually standing there watching you, you know, it's - you do feel a weight. You know, you feel an obligation to not only be - to give the best performance that you can, but to make sure that you represent this person.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Real, Character, Giving

  Source: movieweb.com

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• It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm relatively indifferent about, just because I'm not educated on it, if I go to someone who is educated about it and is passionate about it. I find a point of fiction and then give it to them.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Character, Giving, Mad

  Source: collider.com

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• The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.

  Wallace Stegner

  Real, Character, Two

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• To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Real, Character, Trying

  "Top writing tips: Caroline Lawrence" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.

  Geena Davis

  Girl, Real, Character

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?

  Woody Allen

  Character, Writing, Exhilarating Feeling

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