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Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.
Josh Dun
Character
People
Think
All People
Insecurities
Reference
Fictional
Which
So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.
Judith Tarr
Church
Rare
Our
Further
Distorted
Through
Remarkably
Toward
Attitudes
Reformation
Depiction
Fictional
Victorian
Lens
Much
Even
Actual
Slanted
Medieval
When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the same strength and power of the real ones, and the line between them is completely blurred.
Karl Ove Knausgard
Strength
Power
Those
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Something
Point
Had
Between
Wrote
Always
Real
Line
Same
Fictional
Blurred
Them
Novels
Images
Starting
Starting Point
Most of my favorite fictional couples are distinctly different. Light and dark, good and evil, boring and wild... whatever! They're more fun to experience and definitely more fun to write. You have all these levels, and you know they're not going to react to situations the same way.
Kate Leth
Good
You
Experience
Good And Evil
Dark
Light
Evil
Whatever
Wild
Way
Definitely
Favorite
Boring
More
Write
Know
Most
React
Couples
Same
Going
Situations
Different
Fictional
Fun
Levels
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
Great
People
Speak
Characters
Constantly
About
Well
Makes
Human
Fictional
Literature
Movies
Turned
Reason
Thing
As with real families, my fictional family on 'Life Goes On' had its ups and downs, and as part of the fictional downers, the actors were often called to cry on cue. This absolutely terrified me, because I was a pretty happy kid who didn't have much to cry about.
Kellie Martin
Life
Family
Me
Happy
Ups And Downs
Kid
Pretty
Life Goes On
About
Absolutely
Had
Part
Cry
Terrified
Because
Cue
Real
Were
Families
Goes
Often
Ups
Fictional
Much
Who
Downs
Actor
I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for me, it's sort of the truth of the situation in D.C. Certainly, in my fictional depiction of it, there are decent, shameless people on both sides at every level.
Kristin Gore
Truth
Me
People
Value
Situation
Every
Sides
Value Systems
Systems
Both
Both Sides
Shameless
Sort
Because
Go
Labels
Discussion
Decent
Different
Depiction
Fictional
In-Depth
Really
Certainly
Level
If I leave the fictional world for too long, it's a bit like stepping through a portal, entering another reality, and then not knowing how to get back to where you were before.
Laura van den Berg
You
Reality
World
Long
Before
Not Knowing
Too
Back
Bit
Entering
Through
Stepping
Like
Knowing
Another
How
Leave
Were
Get
Where
Fictional
Then
I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.
Leila Aboulela
Good
Cause
Worlds
Characters
Muslim
Muslims
Logic
Rationale
Write
Ideals
Islamic
Governed
However
Effect
Reflects
Role
Role Models
Behave
Models
Where
Fiction
Fictional
Necessarily
Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.
Leslie Marmon Silko
Time
Reality
Losing
Sense
Way
Kind
Calendars
Because
Real
Limits
Sake
Clocks
Convenience
Fictional
Use
Actually
I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.
Lisa Hanawalt
People
Dark
Dark Side
Side
Drawn
Characters
Feel
Towards
Same
Pathos
Fictional
Little
Who
I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.
Lisa Loeb
Love
Culture
People
Mind
TV
TV Shows
Name
Up
Being
Fictional
Show
Shows
'A Tuna Christmas' is the second in a series of plays created by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams featuring the fictional town of Greater Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas. What makes these plays so hysterically funny is the accurate portrayal of small-town life in the Lone Star State.
Lori Wilde
Life
Funny
Christmas
State
Williams
Joe
Lone
Town
Greater
Makes
Texas
Accurate
Tuna
Fictional
Created
Series
Star
Second
Portrayal
Plays
I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.
Lorrie Moore
Love
Music
People
World
Too
Those
Always
Continue
Surrounded
Up
Fictional
Growing
Growing Up
Imagine
I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.
Luke Evans
Work
Character
Book
Research
Read
Documents
Off
Historical
Role
Literary
Fictional
Script
Figure
Biographies
I fictionship. I love fictional men.
Margaret Stohl
Love
Men
Fictional
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
Marjane Satrapi
Life
Truth
You
Truth Is
Word
Out
Rather
Never
Term
Like
Make
Course
Becomes
Autobiography
Fictional
Story
Script
Far
Created
Your
Second
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.
Mark Billingham
First
Detective
More
Remains
He
Years
Than
After
Fictional
Holmes
Appeared
Like my fictional protagonist Tom Thorne, I love country. My tastes go back a bit further than his do, and I still listen to stuff from the late '70s and early '80s.
Mark Billingham
Love
Country
Late
Back
Bit
Further
Stuff
Like
Protagonist
Still
Go
His
Than
Tastes
Listen
Fictional
Tom
Early
People think our business is this completely fictional world of big guys in tight clothes with no brains. That's not the way it is; this is a psychology-driven business. You have to take people on an emotional ride without using words.
Mark Henry
You
Business
People
Words
Ride
World
Big
Clothes
Think
Our
Way
Guys
Emotional
Take
Tight
Without
Big Guys
Brains
Fictional
Using
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
Mary Gordon
Good
Mind
Enterprises
Bad
Neither
Moral
Some
Habit
Pointless
Stems
Mainly
Reader
Styles
Nor
False
Fiction
Fictional
Describe
As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.
Matthew Pearl
History
You
Pressure
Believe
Writer
Exciting
New
Reactions
Historical
Historical Fiction
Want
Fiction
Fictional
Prod
Aspects
What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.
Matthew Pearl
History
Pressure
Insights
About
New
Most
Historical
Historical Fiction
Fiction
Fictional
Use
Explosive
Elements
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.
Miranda July
Women
Worlds
Only
Construct
Write
Writers
Diary
Up
Women Writers
Often
Fictional
Ground
Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.
Nathan Myhrvold
Life
Funny
Space
Alien
Men
Other
Trek
Extraterrestrial
Hundred
Visions
Neighbors
Running
Most
Operas
Mostly
Hubris
Than
Human
Fictional
Place
Less
Many
Star
Star Trek
Actually
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.
Neil Cross
Character
Catch-22
Most
Identified
Always
Still
Did
Fictional
Whom
Profoundly
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