Fiction
- Polly Peachum, a character in the play The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
- Polly (novel), a novel by Freya North
- Polly: A Novel, a novel by Amy Bryant
- Polly Perks, the main character in Terry Pratchett's novel Monstrous Regiment
- Polly Spark, a fictional character in Knowledge Adventure's JumpStart Typing educational software series
- Along Came Polly, film with character Polly Prince
- Polly (Doctor Who), a fictional character in Doctor Who
- Polly (1989 film), a television musical adaptation of the book Pollyanna, starring Keshia Knight Pulliam and Phylicia Rashad
- Aunt Polly, a character in Tom Sawyer
- Polly Plummer, a main character in the novel The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
- Polly Sherman, the waitress in the British Sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by Connie Booth
- Polly Garter, a character in the play for voices Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
- The History of Mr Polly, a novel by H. G. Wells
- Polly (Underdog), a character in Underdog
- Polly (John Gay opera), a play by John Gay
- Pollyanna, a 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter
- Polly Churchill, a main character in the 2010 two-part novel Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.”
—Thomas M. Disch (b. 1940)
“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)