Fiction
- A Bender is one who can manipulate an element, as in Airbender, Waterbender, Firebender, or Earthbender/Metalbender, in Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra
- Bender (Futurama), a character on animated television series Futurama
- Elaine Bender, detective from the television series Blue Murder
- Goodloe Bender, a character from the movie The Road to Wellville (based on a novel by T. C. Boyle)
- John Bender (character), a character from the 1985 film The Breakfast Club played by Judd Nelson
- Ostap Bender, a fictional antihero by Ilf and Petrov
- Sally Bender Hyde, film character played by Jane Fonda in Coming Home (1978)
- Bender (TV series), 1979 TV series produced by Terry Becker
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send cheques to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)
“... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It’s forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there’s a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)