“How sad that I felt more of a connection to a fictional character than to a guy in real life.”
“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.”
“No more movie references. No more fictional characters to relate to. This was real. It was destiny. I was…a thing, a commodity.”
“Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life”
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
“She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”