Books Quote by Annie Murphy Paul

“those who do read fiction are better able to understand the emotions of others.”

— Terry Marselle

“What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in - fully…

— Rick Gekoski

“I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.”

— Alistair Cross

“the Times reported last week that reading literary fiction increases one’s empathy and emotional intelligence.”

— Kelly Luce

“Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand…

— Ben H. Winters

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes.…

— Neil Gaiman

“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well…

— Ian Leslie

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

“Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy”

— Eitan Levy

“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The…

— Tom Perrotta