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** Most of [[Stephen King]]'s works are rife with this. In ''[[Misery]]'' Paul Sheldon contemplates how to kill the crazy woman holding him captive, only to shoot down every idea he comes up with with "well, maybe in a book that would work, but here, no."
* [[Older Than Steam]]: ''[[Don Quixote]]'' was one of the first works to consciously do this.
* The protagonist of Mil Millington's ''[[A Certain Chemistry]]'', a writer, describes his (supermarket manager) girlfriend's unusual eating habits by saying "If she likes ice-cream, and likes eggs, she might have ice-cream and eggs for dinner. If I was writing her character, I might say that her job means she sees the food as just an output when it goes into the bags at the checkout. But no, she was like that before she worked there." [misquoted from memory]{{verify}}
* [[Roald Dahl]]'s short story ''The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar'' mentions how the protagonist would have met a [[Karmic Death]] if it were a story, but it wasn't a story, so things turned out otherwise. It was all part of the [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]].
* [[Tom Clancy]] frequently points out in his fiction works how things in his stories differ from the movies. The books themselves are only slightly closer to reality, however.
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