Another life Quote by Anthony Doerr

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 is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

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

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

— Colm Toibin

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

— Valerie Plame

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

— Aaron Belz

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr