Books Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read…

— John Dufresne

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of…

— Philip Hensher

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that…

— George Saunders

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is…

— Margaret Atwood

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

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

— Peter Heller

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.

— Ronald Sukenick

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing…

— Anonymous

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in…

— Jim Rohn

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat