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As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
Dinaw Mengestu
Life
Me
Emotions
World
Language
Understanding
Characters
Ability
Vital
Something
Both
Writer
Writers
Most
Render
Fictional
Literature
Landscape
Original
The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.
Donald McCaig
War
Events
Characters
Civil
Civil War
Poignant
Simply
Well
Odd
Ferocious
Fictional
Them
Inhabit
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.
Ed Helms
Character
You
World
Values
Difficult
Incredibly
Bit
Kind
Reacting
Messes
Real
The Real World
Fictional
Real World
Confusing
Your
Playing
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Edmund White
Life
Fall
Real Life
Meet
Characters
Possibly
Bad
Moral
Exacting
Bad Habit
About
Habit
Could
No-One
Know
Readers
Real
Overly
Often
Being
Fictional
Flaws
Standards
Beings
Novels
Apply
Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.
Edward Rutherfurd
Time
Good
History
Writing
Dangerous
Challenge
Our
Characters
Telling
Hopefully
Record
Weaving
About
Good Story
Fair
Historical
Accurate
Same
Same Time
Fiction
Fictional
Story
Creating
Novels
Need
When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
Faran Tahir
Good
Character
You
Eyes
World
Somebody
Else
Bad
See
Bad Guy
Guy
Point
Point Of View
Through
He
Real
Get
Fictional
Real World
Whether
View
Play
Good Guy
Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.
Gail Honeyman
Loneliness
Me
Everybody
Know
Course
Felt
Does
Experiences
Anyone
Fictional
Her
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.
George Perez
Challenge
Characters
Only
Individual
Also
Looks
Make
Greater
Been
Trying
Fictional
While
Them
Even
Keep
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.
Graham Swift
Enough
Back
Our
Our Lives
Guise
Seeing
Thrill
Dates
Never
Soon
Undeniable
Most
Offered
Current
Fictional
Us
Lives
Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.
H. P. Lovecraft
Work
Progress
Simple
Result
Inevitable
Every
Complex
Plots
Some
Bearing
Another
Climax
Any
Essential
May
Suspense
Fictional
Which
Should
Incident
Incidents
Awkward
I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.
Hannah Murray
You
Game
Care
Think
Other
Everything
Way
High
Detail
High Standard
Entirely
Feel
Like
Terms
Does
Any
Fictional
Place
Fantasy
Much
Created
Really
Game Of Thrones
Show
Standard
Comparable
Element
Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.
Holly Valance
You
Entertainment
People
Matter
Will
Reading
Whatever
Hopefully
Write
Wrong
Read
Done
Just
Want
Stories
Anything
Fictional
Realise
Whether
Buying
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.
Howard Jacobson
Problem
Mind
Spring
Most
Narratives
Fictional
When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.
India Eisley
You
Yourself
Believe
Else
Hook
Kind
Find
Some
Someone
No-One
Feels
Because
Real
Going
Where
Fictional
Whether
Then
Portraying
My life also prepared me to play T-Dog. That was what my entire life was about - surviving. To be on the set of 'The Walking Dead,' it was like being back home. I had to survive again, though in the fictional world.
IronE Singleton
Life
Home
Me
World
My Life
Back
Though
Entire
About
Entire Life
Had
Like
Also
Dead
Walking
Survive
Walking Dead
Surviving
Being
Fictional
Again
To Survive
Prepared
Play
Set
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
Jami Attenberg
Yourself
Impossible
Think
Way
Some
About
Something
Having
Write
Another
Without
Fictional
Nearly
When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'
Jane Lindskold
Science
Reality
Writing
Setting
Stretching
Must
Writer
Excessive
Bounds
Science Fiction
Within
Makes
Real
Fiction
Fictional
Fantasy
Realize
Creating
Less
Coincidence
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
Jeanette Winterson
Myself
Great
Character
Confusion
Great Deal
Invent
Deal
Caused
Did
Wanted
Fictional
In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'
Jeff Vandermeer
Truth
Sense
Our
Way
Distracting
Over
Been
Condition
Fictional
Placing
Us
Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Character
You
Memories
Writing
Sometimes
Own
Seem
Write
Put
Idea
Come
Make
Real
Up
Very
Different
Order
Fictional
Story
Then
Your
Even
Start
Basically
We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.
Jeffrey Sachs
World
Aid
Ran
Hook
Out
Russia
Demands
Days
Until
Real
Were
Off
Western
Debt
Western World
Just
Being
Fictional
Reserves
Servicing
Early
Program
Early Days
My brother died when he was 19, so a part of me indulges and thinks that some part of him that made him uniquely him is out there, on another plane. So inventing the fictional afterlife in 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' was a way of making that wish real.
Jesmyn Ward
Me
Made
Wish
Way
Out
Brother
Some
Inventing
He
Part
Sing
Him
Another
Making
Real
Died
Fictional
Afterlife
Plane
Uniquely
Thinks
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
Jodi Picoult
Life
Family
Me
Writing
Free
Live
Enjoy
Dramas
Guess
Our
Crisis
Able
About
Through
Write
Stepping
Feel
Demons
Leaves
Get
Family Life
Any
Psyche
Fictional
Which
Then
Create
Rid
Away
Lurking
Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic.
John Rhys-Davies
Dreams
Time
Quality
Met
Few
Own
Think
Our
Bit
Memorable
Hyde
My Time
Like
Because
Makes
Least
Real
Were
Endow
Fiction
Fictional
Them
Warmth
Villain
Villains
Actor
Sympathetic
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.
John Updike
Architecture
Mortar
Substance
Fictional
Evanescent
Bricks
Consciousness
I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.'
Jonathan Jackson
Great
Hero
Heroes
Hood
Favorite
Great Film
Characters
Would
Rather
Robin
Robin Hood
Fictional
Really
Film
Portray
Last
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