Fiction
Or one the following fictional characters:
- Lisa Yates, from the British TV Sitcom Red Dwarf
- Captain Mike Yates, British science fiction television series Doctor Who
- Detective Yates, recurring character in the skit comedy series The Kids in the Hall
- Rowdy Yates - Rawhide TV series (CBS 1959-1966)
- Yates Noll, villain from Terrier, Book 1 of Tamora Pierce's Beka Cooper Series
- The Hon. John Yates from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send cheques to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)
“Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)