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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.

~Erin Morgenstern

Topics: Blessing Both Curse Everything Fictional Find Formed Fully Mind Nearly Perhaps Quite Quite A While Spring Story Takes Through While Worlds

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One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Also Any Browse Coastline Country Creatures Dictionaries Favorite Fictional Find Historical Inspiration Inspire Like Me Reclusive Reference Seems Shelf Those Visual Way Ways World

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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

Topics: Bad Bad Guy Character Else Eyes Fictional Get Good Good Guy Guy He Play Point Point Of View Real Real World See Somebody Through View Whether World You

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I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

~Frederik Pohl

Topics: About Does Fact Fictional Least Method Methodical Much Neither Practiced Really Relate Science Scientific Scientific Method Them Thing Think Very

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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

Topics: Anyone Course Does Everybody Experiences Felt Fictional Her Know Loneliness Me

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First, unreliability is not the sole preserve of fictional narrators. Second, the pleasure of patting oneself on the back for seizing on instances of unreliability and ignorance is, as the late Frank Kermode may or may not have pointed out, considerable.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Back Considerable Fictional First Frank Ignorance Late May Oneself Out Pleasure Pointed Preserve Second Seizing Sole

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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

Topics: Also Been Challenge Characters Even Fictional Greater Individual Keep Looks Make Only Them Trying Well-Known While

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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?

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Book Care Character Dies Events Experience Feel Fictional Friend Get Go Grieve Just Lived Make More Popcorn Readers Should Somebody Superficial Try You

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