You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.
“I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.”
“In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.”