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