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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.
I think that Miley is getting a chance to be who she really is, after years of having to be a fictional character on TV.
Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.
Once you create a believable fictional universe, you suck the audiences into that world and they tag along for the ride.
It can be a fictional character and yet relatable... It always depends on the content of the film and what you are doing.
In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.
I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'
I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
If we can provide even a fictional roadmap to what a successful, prosperous African nation might look like, then let's do that.
As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters themselves.
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.
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.
I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'
We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.
If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.
'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously.
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.
'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.
Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.
I made my own fictional land, which is 'Bell Choir Coast.' It was a response to feeling really, really lost, and it was what I was looking for.
I loved the idea of a book of fairytales meant especially for peculiar children, and I love even more the idea of making that fictional book real.
I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.
I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
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.
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.
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.
I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.
It seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I'm sitting there conceiving a story, they just pop up.
We'll be reporting music news every week and have real bands coming and performing on 'MyMusic,' interacting with the fictional cast as though they were real.
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
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.
Even though it is fictional, 'Pose' has really tapped into some realities that I know would come from someone who really took the time to investigate ballroom.
I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.
Food is an excellent way to do very elegant worldbuilding - the kind that can make a fictional world seem real, like it extends way past the edges of the frame.
I had directed a short film called 'Girvhi' earlier, on child labour. It was a fictional story. At that time, I realised I could direct a film if given a chance.
Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries.
There are bands who write of emotions that are very heartbreaking, touching, or relatable, but they'll be like concept records, they're about fictional characters.
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.