“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.”
“How sad that I felt more of a connection to a fictional character than to a guy in real life.”
“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.”
“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”
“Sometimes lost in a book, you forget which is the real world and which is fiction.”