Fiction
- Jess, 1887 novel by Henry Rider Haggard
- Jess Bhamra, fictional character in the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham
- Jess Mariano, fictional character in the television series Gilmore Girls
- Jess Mackenzie, fictional character in the television series Monarch of the Glen
- Jess Squirrel, fictional character in the Redwall novels by Brian Jacques
- Jess Tamblyn, fictional character in the Saga of Seven Suns novels by Kevin J. Anderson
- Jess the cat, fictional character in the Postman Pat universe
- Jesse Oliver Aarons, Jr., fictional main character of Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“My mother ... believed fiction gave one an unrealistic view of the world. Once she caught me reading a novel and chastised me: “Never let me catch you doing that again, remember what happened to Emma Bovary.””
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“A fiction about soft or easy deaths ... is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)