People in Fiction
- Dracula by Bram Stoker - A Russian ship, the Demeter, having weighed anchor at Varna, runs aground on the shores of Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, during a fierce tempest. Whitby continues to celebrate its link with Dracula, as well as its Victorian gothic past.
- Beedle the Bard - In the Harry Potter Wizarding world he is the fictional author of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Beedle was born in Yorkshire in the 15th century.
- Robinson Crusoe - the title character from the novel by Daniel Defoe.
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Famous quotes containing the words people in, people and/or fiction:
“There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature,
always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.”
—J. William Fulbright (b. 1905)
“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)