Another life Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…

— Vincent Canby

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings…

— Eudora Welty

“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

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

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

— Jennifer Haigh

A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view - something…

— Justin Cartwright

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

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 a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

Good fiction creates its own reality.

— Nora Roberts

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer