George R. R. Martin

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

American Author

Jeffrey Eugenides

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.

American Novelist

Faran Tahir

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.

Pakistani Actor

Erin Morgenstern

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

American Writer

Richard Bach

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.

Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

We've been able to create those personalities that are not anonymous that can somehow support exposure but in a fictional way.

Jeanette Winterson

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

British Novelist

Helena Christensen

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.

Danish Model

Lisa Lutz

I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character.

Penelope Lively

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

English Author

Used mostly in literature and storytelling to distinguish from real-life accounts.

Genre Dependent

'Fictional' doesn't mean untrue, but rather deliberately made up for entertainment or art.

Not False

Describes places, events, people, or creatures that are invented for a narrative.

Narrative Use

 immerses themselves and then feels a level of commitment to the subjects that we're trying to depict absolutely authentic City is very important in a story like this because we are not telling something fictional it's so it's a true story it's about somebody who really made a difference and someone

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 This is an online game in which you try to survive an oil shortage. The oil shortage is fictional, but we put enough online content out there for you to believe that it's real, and to live your real life as if we've run out of oil. So when you come to the game, you sign up, tell us where you live,

Gaming can make a better...

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The colossal consequences...

 languages, cultures, universes, alternate universes within universes, and from those worlds sprout story, after story, after story. When it's done well, readers can understand fictional worlds and their rules just as well as the characters that live in them do

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 Here, supernatural events or abilities are described in a realistic and matter-of-fact tone, while the real events of human life and history reveal themselves to be full of fantastical absurdity. Surreal phenomena within the fictional village of Macondo

Why should you read "One...

 but left instead to the dark depths of our imagination. Lovecraft’s dozens of short stories, novellas, and poems often take place in the same fictional continuity, with recurring characters, locations, and mythologies. At first glance,

Titan of terror: the...

 I mean, beyond the level of the basic community of a few dozen people, are based on a fictional story. They are not the truth. They are not the reality. It's just a story that people invent and tell one another and start believing.

Nationalism vs....

 They may be very positive stories, very good stories, but they're still just fictional stories that we've invented. The same is true of the political field. The most important factors in modern politics are states and nations.

Why humans run the world...

 city for a fictional Pokemon you are searching for manyara games have a negative connotation because they can addictive just a small percentage of those billions could get addicted to wildlife