Reading Fiction Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.
— Jennifer Haigh
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As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to…
— William James
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I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair,…
— Steven Wright
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Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
— Orson Scott Card
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
— Alice Hoffman
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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy…
— Ann Patchett
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And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the…
— George R. R. Martin
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Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded…
— Neil Gaiman
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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.…
— Ann Patchett
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I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter…
— Cassie Steele
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Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
— Peter Morgan
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I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative…
— Kevin Wilson
Who Wrote These Reading Fiction Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Reading Fiction Quotes as follows: