Books Quote by Azar Nafisi

“That first day I asked my students what they thought fiction should accomplish, why one should bother to read fiction at all. It was…

— Azar Nafisi

“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

Fiction is an easy way to talk about issues: I think it feels less preachy. You can have the students discuss characters in the…

— Jay Asher

“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should…

— Edna O'Brien

“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best…

— Azar Nafisi

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's…

— Flannery O'Connor

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

“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 was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re flawed and…

— George Saunders

“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.”

— Pushpa Rana

“It is childish to study a work of fiction in order to gain information about a country or about a social class or about…

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Terry Marselle