Fiction
- Butterfield, fictional town in Kansas in L. Frank Baum's 1909 novel The Road to Oz
- Butterfield, fictional butler of Watkyn Bassett in Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
- Brian Butterfield, overweight salesman character from The Peter Serafinowicz Show.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“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)
“If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)