Quotes About Fiction

I love when you get the feeling of some social reality with a fictional film.

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

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

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I'd write 'The Calling' as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me.

In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'

There is a certain fictional element that goes in playing a common person.

I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting.

While I've been well-known for trying to keep my fictional characters individual in their looks, it's an even greater challenge not only to make them individual but also identifiable.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

It's really an honor when you're creating a fictional show that changes people's lives. That's what I love about this industry. There's always potential to do that to influence people's lives. I always felt a sense of responsibility to try to make that a positive experience.

Great pictures can't be entirely fictitious.

We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.

Saroj Kumar is a fictitious character who is free to think anything.

Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

I always gravitated a bit towards more of the fantasy, and 'Lost Girl' really fits in with that.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

I love science fiction, and one of the things I love about it is that it's so very different. You can read stuff that's just fast-paced adventure, and the characters are cardboard, but who cares, because they're heroes, and we love it. And you can read stuff that's really deep character, and everything in between.

When people see me in public, they're usually like, 'Whoa, you're a real person.' It's as if they're seeing Pinocchio or a cartoon character come to life.