Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity…

“I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love for people…

— Marilynne Robinson

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about…

— Jim Shepard

In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used…

— Marge Piercy

[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And…

— Libby Houston

Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it…

— David Sylvester

Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with Paul's back…

— Jay Adams

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new,…

— Eckhart Tolle

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and…

— Sherman Alexie

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

— Ayn Rand

“What is a woman? Her brothers' sister, her father's daughter, Her husband's wife, her children's mother”

— David Elliott

I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am…

— Robert Anton Wilson

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications…

— John Updike

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

— Saul Bellow

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of…

— Eckhart Tolle

The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.

— Byron Katie