Books Quote by Dorothea Brande

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

Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us…

— David Malouf

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 place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something…

— Tom Perrotta

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr

“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