Among Quote by Andrew O'Hagan

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

— Anonymous

“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals…

— Matthew Scully

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we…

— Ingrid Newkirk

“If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.”

— Henry James

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

— Alison Goldfrapp

We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete…

— Marcel Proust

“This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language. It’s”

— Yuval Noah Harari

It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're ecosystems, full-fledged…

— Joshua Mohr

“Every animal is a tradition, and together they are a vast part of our heritage as human beings. No animal completely lacks humanity, yet…

— Boria Sax

As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but…

— John Burnside

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

— Sara Gruen