Fictional Identity Quotes

I eventually thought of SpongeBob, but he needed a last name - SquarePants came to mind.

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books.

Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.

I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.

Johnny Nitro was like Johnny Hollywood, Johnny Danger, Johnny Blaze... it's just an obvious stage, Hollywood name. But John Morrison is more like a real person.

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!