You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house.
"Just a small one," said Nightingale.
"So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a...what?"
"A wizard."
"Like Harry Potter?"
Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter."
"In what way?"
"I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.
- Ben Aaronovitch
I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.
- Kate Atkinson
Jane Austen has a fictional character say, when asked what she is reading, "Oh! it is only a novel," adding, "Only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its variety, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language" (Northanger Abbey, chapter 5).
- Jane Austen
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.
- Richard Bach
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.
- John Banville
It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.
- Alain De Botton
I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
- Penelope Lively
Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!
- Peter Cushing
Why do you think this person isn't gonna come after me or my family?" I asked again.
"Well, the author of the book isn't in the book," Kimball said, offering a pointlessly reassuring smile that failed utterly. "I mean, Bret Ellis is not a character in the book, and so far the assailant is only interested in finding people with similar identities or names of fictional characters." Pause. "You're not a fictional character, are you, Mr. Ellis?
- Bret Easton Ellis
Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon
- Garrison Keillor
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
- John M Ford
Indy Rivers got things done. Maybe she was a fictional character, but they were in a fictional place, in a fictional situation. There were worse things to be than fictional.
- Mira Grant
Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.
- Shannon Hale
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
You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.
- J K Rowling
Sometimes I get advice from the fictional characters in my dreams. Sometimes It's good, and sometimes it's nonsensical.
- Jarod Kintz
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
She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free..
- Kate Morton
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.
- Joaquin Phoenix
No more movie references. No more fictional characters to relate to. This was real. It was destiny. I was...a thing, a commodity.
- C J Roberts
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
- Jeanette Winterson
Plenty of people were writing novels; in fact, if one did a survey in the street, half of Edinburgh was writing a novel, and this meant that there really weren't enough characters to go round. Unless, of course, one wrote about people who were themselves writing novels. And what would the novels that these fictional characters were writing be about? Well, they would be novels about people writing novels.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
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
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else's shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind "refreshingly honest," and hailed Marc's temper as "a deep protective instinct." He said Ethan "thoroughly enjoyed life," and that Parker "really knew how to have a good time." According to Owen, we were all doing just fine, and all was right with the world.
- Rachel Vincent
"Just a small one," said Nightingale.
"So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a...what?"
"A wizard."
"Like Harry Potter?"
Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter."
"In what way?"
"I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.
- Ben Aaronovitch
I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.
- Kate Atkinson
Jane Austen has a fictional character say, when asked what she is reading, "Oh! it is only a novel," adding, "Only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its variety, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language" (Northanger Abbey, chapter 5).
- Jane Austen
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.
- Richard Bach
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.
- John Banville
It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.
- Alain De Botton
I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
- Penelope Lively
Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!
- Peter Cushing
Why do you think this person isn't gonna come after me or my family?" I asked again.
"Well, the author of the book isn't in the book," Kimball said, offering a pointlessly reassuring smile that failed utterly. "I mean, Bret Ellis is not a character in the book, and so far the assailant is only interested in finding people with similar identities or names of fictional characters." Pause. "You're not a fictional character, are you, Mr. Ellis?
- Bret Easton Ellis
Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon
- Garrison Keillor
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
- John M Ford
Indy Rivers got things done. Maybe she was a fictional character, but they were in a fictional place, in a fictional situation. There were worse things to be than fictional.
- Mira Grant
Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.
- Shannon Hale
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
You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.
- J K Rowling
Sometimes I get advice from the fictional characters in my dreams. Sometimes It's good, and sometimes it's nonsensical.
- Jarod Kintz
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
She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free..
- Kate Morton
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.
- Joaquin Phoenix
No more movie references. No more fictional characters to relate to. This was real. It was destiny. I was...a thing, a commodity.
- C J Roberts
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
- Jeanette Winterson
Plenty of people were writing novels; in fact, if one did a survey in the street, half of Edinburgh was writing a novel, and this meant that there really weren't enough characters to go round. Unless, of course, one wrote about people who were themselves writing novels. And what would the novels that these fictional characters were writing be about? Well, they would be novels about people writing novels.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
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
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else's shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind "refreshingly honest," and hailed Marc's temper as "a deep protective instinct." He said Ethan "thoroughly enjoyed life," and that Parker "really knew how to have a good time." According to Owen, we were all doing just fine, and all was right with the world.
- Rachel Vincent
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