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:
“Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
—Coleman Dowell (19251985)
“Coincidence is a pimp and a cardsharper in ordinary fiction but a marvelous artist in the patterns of facts recollected by a non-ordinary memorist.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“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. Its forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where theres a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)