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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.
I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
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