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title: "4 Shape Brain Quotes by 4 authors"
description: "Browse 4 Shape Brain quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Shape Brain sayings and thoughts."
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> [That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/that-s-the-thing-about-fiction-writers-what-seems-alarming-or/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83d/zadie-smith-584_about_that-s-the-thing-about-fiction-writers-w_1800669.png)

> [Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-fisher/experiences-shape-the-brain-but-the-brain-shapes-the-way-we-view/)

[Helen Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-fisher/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cb/helen-fisher-2469_brain_experiences-shape-the-brain-but-the-brai_2162148.png)

> [For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lou-gramm/for-the-next-three-plus-years-i-really-was-not-in-creative-shape-that/)

[Lou Gramm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lou-gramm/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/105/lou-gramm-18822_brain_for-the-next-three-plus-years-i-really-w_2840888.jpg)

> [All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-s-walker/all-of-imagination-everything-that-we-think-we-feel-we-sense-comes/)

[Jay S. Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-s-walker/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c4/jay-s-walker-47134_brain_all-of-imagination-everything-that-we-th_2990228.jpg)

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