Fiction
- John Carter of Mars, a character from the classic science fiction series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- John Carter (film), a 2012 film featuring the Burroughs character
- John Carter, Warlord of Mars, a Marvel Comics series created in 1977 and based on the Burroughs character
- The fictional universe depicted in John Carter fiction, known commonly as Barsoom
- John Carter (ER), a character from the television series ER
- John Carter, a character from the film Cromwell played by Frank Finlay
- John Carter, a character from the television series Little House on the Prairie played by Stan Ivar
- Zebadiah John Carter, a character from the Robert A. Heinlein novel, The Number of the Beast
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“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)